Sandra Cisneros Quotes

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Sandra Cisneros

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 20, 1954

Topics

MotherSchoolPeopleMeLibrarySee

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

Jim Carrey

HomeYouKnowStar

When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.

Jenna Blum

StormMomWeatherDriveMeanSee

Ebooks had to happen.

Jeff Bezos

HappenHad

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Robert Crumb

WorkMyselfMeYouLooksKnow

When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'

Roy Lichtenstein

PaintingWantWhyQuestionCartoon

Do you know who I would love to play? Morticia Addams - then I could use all that darkness to be funny.

Monica Bellucci

FunnyLoveDarknessYouPlayKnow

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments?

Judith Butler

PeoplePoliticalSaidSameJewish

I grew up with a single mother, and I wasn't out shooting too many guns.

Jason Momoa

MotherSingleOutGunsUpShooting

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.

Brendan Myers

MyselfSchoolParentsGameDesign

The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.

Anouska Hempel

LoveDayYourselfPeopleBuilding

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

Willie Geist

GreatPeopleWorldStoryFactsKnow

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

FearGodMoreQuestionBoldness

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