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Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: cuban
Birth: April 22, 1929 - February 21, 2005

Topics

Humor Words Puns Form

Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously.

You Go Know Drink Days English

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

Me Mad More Years Stuff Made

I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.

John Shelby Spong

Life Work God Myself Responsibility

The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no pesky nuances and almost no background about the series' continuing characters - just the hard nuts and bolts of pure storytelling.

Me Law Storytelling Hard Nuts Pure

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. Set a standard, and stay faithful to it.

Relationship Young Others Faithful

Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No.

Good Home Day Believe Chance Better

The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Daughter Beautiful Way Write Tone

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

Music Together Acting Filmmaking

I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.

Myself Farm You Down Go Never

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Christopher Hitchens

People Me Stupid Argument Lazy Most

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Chen Guangcheng

Nature Good People Evil Feel Stop

I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.

Me Opportunities Cost Natural Score

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