Oscar Hijuelos Quotes

Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

Oscar Hijuelos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 24, 1951 - October 12, 2013

Topics

PastThinkingPresentContemplation

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

AloneArtManYouKindBear

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

Mayim Bialik

CommunicationYouAchieveProfound

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

Robert Lanza

TodaySciencePurposeFlyingPhysics

Confidence comes from within and as long as you are putting forth a respectable effort to take good care of yourself, you should feel confident about that path.

Stacy Keibler

GoodConfidencePathYourselfEffort

I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.

Sigourney Weaver

LoveFunPeopleCoolThinkYoung

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .

Tony Shalhoub

WorkYearYouKnowSayWant

Titles either come to you at the beginning or they don't come to you at all, I find, and I hate the feeling that I haven't got a title because it usually means that you are left at the end scrambling around trying to find something.

Ronald Frame

HateBeginningEndTryingYouFind

I am very supportive of Donald Trump's call to temporarily suspend immigration from countries where terrorists influence and impact represents a threat to the United States.

Mike Pence

I AmInfluenceImpactImmigration

God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them, and let's have peace.

Mickey Rooney

GodPeaceUniverseBlessIndians

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

Milos Forman

ThinkYouKnowHollywoodFilmMake

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Dennis Brown

LearningMusicYouStopNeverSee

When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

Christian Louboutin

WinterGoodLightCreativeColdGo

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