Octavio Paz Quotes

We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

Octavio Paz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeWorldLookPureSideDivide

If you're going to be a zombie in a movie, you go big or go home.

Jessica Lucas

HomeYouGoBigGoingZombie

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

John Stossel

GovernmentBetterProblemDoingWill

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.

John Updike

AgeSayingThinkLongUnderstand

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Stanley Crouch

PhilosophyScoutPersonLivingBoy

Our look and image never change dramatically from one season to the next, so we need an edge.

Tommy Hilfiger

ChangeLookEdgeNeverNeedImage

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

Russell Smith

ChildrenMarketingMatterStillEdit

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Mary Shelley

LifeLightDeathMeWorldDark

There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study. The most commonly discussed plan is to lace the sky with reflective chemicals.

Michael Specter

BestSkyPlanWorthWayOthers

That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.

Josh Silver

RelationshipTogetherPeopleMoments

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Brian Eno

MusicPeopleListeningEasyListen

My sweet tooth was so bad, it was rotten. So I had to have it pulled. For me, with sugar, it's all or nothing. So I had to cut it out.

Arden Myrin

MeSweetBadSugarNothingOut

I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.

Ashton Kutcher

WorkLoveCharacterGreatThinkGo

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