Isabel Allende Quotes

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: August 2, 1942

Topics

PerspectiveChooseSituationCreating

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

Jim Lampley

GreatColdFighterNeverOutTwice

I am not a person who tries on in the stores. It drives me crazy. So I buy and take back if I don't like something. I really don't enjoy being in the dressing room. I rather just try it on in my house.

Jessica Simpson

I AmMeCrazyEnjoyBackHouse

Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.

John Darnielle

WrestlingExpressionVastnessForm

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

John Elkann

LearningGoodBadBad TimesAm

We need someone who has the experience - and the demeanor - to be the president of the United States.

Robert J. Bentley

ExperienceSomeonePresidentNeed

I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.

Jeb Bush

ConservativePracticing

Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.

Steven Hall

NatureChangeGreatMeInternetWay

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

Toni Braxton

LoveSadMeKnowWonderfulSongs

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

Tom Waits

HappinessKnowledgeConfusedWealth

As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

Michelle Bachelet

WorkWomenOpportunityIndiaRight

If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.

Brett Hoebel

GoalsReachTryingYouAccomplish

If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.

Brad Feld

WorkExperienceThinkYouSayTouch

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