I love Frida Kahlo.
PAZ DE LA HUERTA I love going to the hair salon. I'm Spanish. I think it's more of a Latina thing to go to th...
PAZ DE LA HUERTA I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child.
PAZ DE LA HUERTA If I collect anything, it's lingerie.
PAZ DE LA HUERTA Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody commen...
PAZ DE LA HUERTA I don't ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close...
PAZ DE LA HUERTA When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of...
DOLORES HUERTA If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
DOLORES HUERTA My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or pic...
DOLORES HUERTA I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fa...
DOLORES HUERTA My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great...
DOLORES HUERTA If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
DOLORES HUERTA went back to our old culture, the Latino culture.
DOLORES HUERTA We are inspired by what is happening here. The revolution here is electoral. It has inspired us to t...
DOLORES HUERTA We're here celebrating a new civil rights movement, and it's headed up by Latinos.
DOLORES HUERTA My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an importan...
DOLORES HUERTA None of that would have happened had it not been for the marches. But our work is not done.
DOLORES HUERTA Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being veget...
DOLORES HUERTA We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both fee...
DOLORES HUERTA Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
DOLORES HUERTA The Mexican flag is like a symbol of dignity and identity and pride for the people who carry it. If ...
DOLORES HUERTA This is a terrific opportunity for young people to learn what the democratic process is about, the w...
DOLORES HUERTA I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming...
DOLORES HUERTA She's versatile. She's short, yet she'll go in there and play a forward position and not be afraid t...
ANDREA HUERTA If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
DOLORES HUERTA She's just phenomenal. She has great teamwork and she can take it to the hole herself. And she is ho...
ANDREA HUERTA Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- th...
DOLORES HUERTA Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other peop...
DOLORES HUERTA It's not just a port problem.
KEN HUERTA Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vege...
DOLORES HUERTA My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and work...
DOLORES HUERTA In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after the disorder i...
DE LA TOUR Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA LA FONTAINE I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that ...
OCTAVIO PAZ To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination o...
OCTAVIO PAZ We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
OCTAVIO PAZ The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
OCTAVIO PAZ The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: his...
OCTAVIO PAZ Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high pl...
OCTAVIO PAZ The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no lon...
OCTAVIO PAZ Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about j...
OCTAVIO PAZ Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environmen...
OCTAVIO PAZ Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming...
OCTAVIO PAZ The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortu...
OCTAVIO PAZ Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, t...
OCTAVIO PAZ To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
OCTAVIO PAZ Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
OCTAVIO PAZ Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
OCTAVIO PAZ To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
OCTAVIO PAZ The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something...
OCTAVIO PAZ Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us...
OCTAVIO PAZ The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are ...
OCTAVIO PAZ Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
OCTAVIO PAZ Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and...
OCTAVIO PAZ Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being bec...
OCTAVIO PAZ Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art i...
OCTAVIO PAZ Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something mi...
OCTAVIO PAZ Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no differe...
OCTAVIO PAZ If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of ...
OCTAVIO PAZ What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
OCTAVIO PAZ "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life ...
OCTAVIO PAZ Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technolog...
OCTAVIO PAZ Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...
OCTAVIO PAZ Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes th...
OCTAVIO PAZ All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable an...
OCTAVIO PAZ Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art...
OCTAVIO PAZ The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twiste...
OCTAVIO PAZ Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
OCTAVIO PAZ Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nin...
OCTAVIO PAZ In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work...
OCTAVIO PAZ When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the ...
OCTAVIO PAZ Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I ...
PAZ VEGA For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative ...
OCTAVIO PAZ Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the dist...
OCTAVIO PAZ If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disrega...
OCTAVIO PAZ As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the...
OCTAVIO PAZ Deserve your dream.
OCTAVIO PAZ Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - tha...
OCTAVIO PAZ In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins argu...
OCTAVIO PAZ Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of d...
OCTAVIO PAZ Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is...
OCTAVIO PAZ Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his...
OCTAVIO PAZ The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poe...
OCTAVIO PAZ We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as...
OCTAVIO PAZ Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...
OCTAVIO PAZ Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
OCTAVIO PAZ Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us et...
OCTAVIO PAZ What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life i...
OCTAVIO PAZ To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to ...
OCTAVIO PAZ The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging cla...
OCTAVIO PAZ The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American e...
OCTAVIO PAZ "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions.
...
OCTAVIO PAZ I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.
PAZ VEGA Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is s...
OCTAVIO PAZ A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who imp...
OCTAVIO PAZ I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's mar...
PAZ VEGA Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
OCTAVIO PAZ Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indiffere...
OCTAVIO PAZ Nuestra muerte ilumina nuestra vida. Si nuestra muerte carece de sentido, tampoco lo tuvo nuestra vi...
OCTAVIO PAZ My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living wit...
PAZ VEGA ...chases after it, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, sleeps with it; it is his favorite plaything and h...
OCTAVIO PAZ People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it...
PAZ VEGA Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and mora...
OCTAVIO PAZ I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books th...
OCTAVIO PAZ Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential i...
OCTAVIO PAZ A saint speaks with God or with himself, two forms of silence.
OCTAVIO PAZ An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a cens...
OCTAVIO PAZ Merece lo que sueñas.
OCTAVIO PAZ Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reprod...
OCTAVIO PAZ When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
OCTAVIO PAZ Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
OCTAVIO PAZ In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspen...
OCTAVIO PAZ An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work ...
OCTAVIO PAZ We have been making steady progress in moving this institute forward.
HAROLD PAZ There are individuals and families desperate for new discoveries and the possibility of treatments a...
HAROLD PAZ [People from] the U.S. miss out in learning about this. There are many things in common in all citie...
FRANCISCO PAZ Residents in the area said they heard an explosion. Air rescue teams are traveling to the area right...
FRANCISCO PAZ The plane went out of control and crashed. There are no survivors.
FRANCISCO PAZ Residents in the area said they heard an explosion.
FRANCISCO PAZ Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident.
FRANCISCO PAZ They asked what kind of problems they were having, and the pilots indicated that it was a technical ...
FRANCISCO PAZ la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa...
OCTAVIO PAZ Beyond myself, somewhere,
I wait for my arrival.
OCTAVIO PAZ This process took place mainly after September 11 and it became the main field of activity at least ...
REUVEN PAZ The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where perform...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments a...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA Your anger is a gift.
ZACK DE LA ROCHA I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because o...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about ...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and...
WALTER DE LA MARE Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
WALTER DE LA MARE A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected w...
WALTER DE LA MARE Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rap...
WARREN DE LA RUE By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual a...
WARREN DE LA RUE For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
WARREN DE LA RUE Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothe...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, alwa...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered e...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hi...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I w...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices y...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfel...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Out of difficulties grow miracles.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any othe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Love and friendship exclude each other.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad example...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People who make no noise are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA My customers are successful workingwomen.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the c...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It&#...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and sa...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individu...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA