Celines Diaz Quotes

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy. ~ Junot Diaz

What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go. ~ Porfirio Diaz

Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston. ~ Junot Diaz

Blur trying to shy away from the camera. I listen to her advice and on my way to and from work I concentrate on the other ~ Junot Diaz

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?' ~ Junot Diaz

I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was the willingness to be vulnerable and to be found out. That's what I felt that YA did. It wasn't pretentious, and it wasn't hiding its heart. It wanted to be found out ...
It felt like those moments when you go to a party and you're standing around for a long time, going, I don't fit in here, what am I going to talk to these people about? And everybody's getting drunk, and then you find this one person, and you end up sitting in some corner talking about all these arcane things.
And then before you know it you're having a conversation about the meaning of life and it's four o'clock in the morning. That kind of feeling, that kind of intimacy - I felt like that's what I got from YA. ~ Libba Bray

Decent people live around here and that's how we're going to live. You're Americans now. He had his Chivas Regal bottle on his knee. ~ Junot Diaz

I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior. ~ Madi Diaz

Different is not always a good thing. ~ Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Don't be scared homie! ~ Nick Diaz

Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago and I still looked like hell. ~ Junot Diaz

School until the day a teacher, acting on an anonymous tip from a member of the student body, surprised the undercover couple in flagrante delicto in a broom ~ Junot Diaz

For next to God, who is our strength, all depends upon the valour of our arms. ~ Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

Dude wore his nerdiness like a Jedi wore his light saber or a Lensman her lens. Couldn't have passed for Normal if he'd wanted to. ~ Junot Diaz

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic. ~ Junot Diaz

PEACETIME BY LUKE MOGELSON I was living in the armory on Lexington Avenue. First Sergeant Diaz had given me the keys. ~ Anonymous

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls. ~ Cameron Diaz

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor. ~ Junot Diaz

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it. ~ Junot Diaz

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking. ~ Junot Diaz

It never ceases to amaze me how prosaic, pedestrian, unimaginative people can persistently pontificate about classical grammatical structure as though it's fucking rocket science. These must be the same people who hate Picasso, because he couldn't keep the paint inside the lines and the colors never matched the numbers. ~ Abbe Diaz

But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now. ~ Junot Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on. ~ Cameron Diaz

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward. ~ Madi Diaz

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. ~ Junot Diaz

Revenge is living well, without you. ~ Junot Diaz

The beauty! The beauty! ~ Junot Diaz

A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things. ~ Junot Diaz

Experience tells me habits are stronger than love, fear, and necessity. ~ Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran up and said, Excuse me, but your stupid roommate is going insane, and I had to bolt upstairs and put him in a headlock. ~ Junot Diaz

My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man. ~ Junot Diaz

There's a little part of you at all times that hopes to be somewhat objectified, and I think it's healthy. ~ Cameron Diaz

These were the early Clinton years but the economy was still sucking an eighties cock ... ~ Junot Diaz

My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman. ~ Junot Diaz

You breathe nonstop, like a marathon runner, but it doesn't help. ~ Junot Diaz

We were about to hit the door when she returned, panting, an envelope of cold around her.
Where did you go? I asked.
I went for a walk. She dropped her coat at the door; her face was red from the cold and she was breathing deeply, as if she'd sprinted the last thirty steps.
Where?
Just around the corner.
Why the hell did you do that?
She started to cry, and when Rafa put his hand on her waist, she slapped it away. We went back to our room.
I think she's losing it, I said.
She's just lonely, Rafa said. ~ Junot Diaz

There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really. ~ Lav Diaz

I can easily go to America, or I can easily escape to some places in Europe with friends. But the place for me is the Philippines. The struggle is there. I cannot turn my back on it. It's a responsibility. ~ Lav Diaz

In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty years after this destruction, with all the stuff that we're dealing with now - a dirty war, the disappeared, the concept of terrorism. Anyway, 9/11 happened some years into the process, and I was like, OK, I don't have a novel. ~ Junot Diaz

Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple. ~ Richard Diaz

Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration. ~ Mario Diaz-Balart

My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it. ~ Nick Diaz

Just because you can put something in your mouth, chew it, swallow it, and then poop it out doesn't mean it's food. It just means you can chew it, swallow it, and poop it out. ~ Cameron Diaz

The Mexicans relate that, shortly before our arrival in New Spain, there appeared a figure in the heavens of a circular form, like a carriage wheel, the colours of which were a mixture of green and red. Shortly after a second, of a similar form, made its appearance, which moved towards the rising of the sun, and joined the first. ~ Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight. ~ Junot Diaz

Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it's like people are trying to find something out about me, I don't. ~ Cameron Diaz

Instead of grace, we rattle forks in our empty bowls. ~ Natalie Diaz