Octavio Paz Quotes

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

Octavio Paz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998

Topics

TimeMindEndSearchGoAim

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.

Jim Bunning

MarriagePeopleRestVoiceStrategy

One must always keep one's government under control.

Joe Wilson

GovernmentControlAlwaysKeepMust

A cultural thing that is funny to me is that every time I go out in D.C. after a show, all the nightclubs and restaurants are owned by Iranians and Afghans. It's funny to me how we lost our countries but we gained the nightlife.

Maz Jobrani

FunnyTimeMeLostGoOut

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

John Hickenlooper

PlanningYouLookBadNewMore

I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.

Matthew Vaughn

DoingLikeX-MenOtherwise

Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.

Tony Harrison

MorningLightFireJobWarPoetry

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

Miguel

ArtEgoWallEmotionBeingMacho

I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.

DMX

OpportunityBooksReadSoonMovie

It may be a masculine attitude to take lovers, but it's definitely prevalent. I'm certainly not the oldest person doing it - not that I'm doing it right now, but when I was.

Diana Rigg

AttitudeDoingPersonNowRightMay

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Diane Arbus

YouFeelingKnowImportantWayYour

I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.

Chris Gibson

StrengthBelieveAmericaI Believe

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

Broderick Crawford

BeautifulWhyAntiquesBecause

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