Manuel Puig Quotes

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Manuel Puig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: argentinian
  • Birth: December 28, 1932 - July 22, 1990

Topics

GoodI AmPeopleYoungYoung People

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

Robert Green Ingersoll

ReligionValueLawWorthArgument

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

Andy Williams

FinanceSchoolDriveTeachHow

All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.

Aneurin Barnard

WorkChildBondWalkingBootsDown

I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.

Michael Eric Dyson

WorldStartBlackViewOutsideSame

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

Meryl Streep

OldGoingWhoVeryWere

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.

Roger McGuinn

VillageCaliforniaSoundAlwaysOut

I've got to give props to my dad. He got me into the UFC and the MMA scene to begin with.

Robert Whittaker

MeBeginMMAGotGiveHe

I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.

Roy Ayers

GoodTimePeopleMeYearLook

As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.

Liz Murray

MotherBlindThreeMental IllnessUp

Tapas is a celebration of life.

Jose Andres

LifeCelebration

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Dirk Benedict

MusicCollegeMeWritingActingGot

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

Debi Gliori

TimePlacesOutOwnUsMachines

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