Graterol Machado Quotes

You wanted someone to be obsessed with you. How could you accomplish that? ~ Carmen Maria Machado

But this story? This one's mine. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

Dream-travelers, there is no path, paths are made by dreaming. ~ Antonio Machado

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same. ~ Antonio Machado

You will never feel as desperate and fucked up and horrible as you do when you hear those things. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us. ~ Antonio Machado

I was a creature so small, trapped in some crevice of an indifferent universe. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

I've missed you," he says.

I've missed myself, you want to say, but you don't. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant. ~ Antonio Machado

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up. ~ Antonio Machado

The inhabitant gives the room its purpose. Your actions are mightier than any architect's intentions. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

Mankind owns four things
That are no good at sea:
Rudder, anchor, oars,
And the fear of going down. ~ Antonio Machado

Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand. ~ Antonio Machado

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book. ~ Rob Machado

Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god. ~ Machado De Assis

He is not a bad man, and that, I realize suddenly, is the root of my hurt. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them. ~ Machado De Assis

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. ~ Antonio Machado

She's like dough, how the give of it beneath kneading hands disguises its sturdiness, its potential. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done. ~ Machado De Assis

Oil runs America and it's the sad reality. ~ Cristian Machado

In hoc signo vinces ~ Machado De Assis

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career. ~ Alicia Machado

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it. ~ Antonio Machado

There is no country that has the best men. ~ Alicia Machado

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be
forged as you walk. ~ Antonio Machado

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being. ~ Antonio Machado

Sometimes I wonder if the bars make the monsters and not the other way around. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand ~ Antonio Machado

I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams:
expert hunter of himself,
every minute in ambush. ~ Antonio Machado

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. ~ Antonio Machado

Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it. ~ China Machado

The truth is, there is no better place to live than in the shadow of a beautiful, furious mountain. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction. ~ Alicia Machado

Tears are not arguments. ~ Machado De Assis

Look for your other half
Who walks along next to you,
And tends to be what you aren't. ~ Antonio Machado

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. ~ Antonio Machado

As a grown woman, I would have said to my father that there are true things in this world observed only by a single set of eyes. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

Every day I am trying to improve my life. ~ Alicia Machado

What does one day matter! Yesterday stands poised
to face tomorrow, tomorrow faces the infinite:"

-from "The Iberian God ~ Antonio Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it. ~ China Machado

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. ~ Machado De Assis

I think she adored this version of me, whose difficulties were, for all intents and purposes, childlike. She was a good mother for young children. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

I think that as people and as humans, our social pattern is to always run away from problems ... as humans in general. ~ Cristian Machado

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized. ~ China Machado

There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector. ~ Antonio Machado

I had no self-control, but tomorrow I would relinquish control and everything would be right again. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues. ~ Antonio Machado

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. ~ Antonio Machado

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world. ~ Rob Machado

They are talking about how we can't trust the faded women, women who can't be touched but can stand on the earth, which means they must be lying about something, they must be deceiving us somehow. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises. ~ Machado De Assis

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food. ~ China Machado

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully. ~ China Machado

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age. ~ China Machado

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything. ~ Alicia Machado

Then one day, you learned that rapture could also mean blissful happiness, and you understood, fully, that it is important to live in unyielding fear with a smile on your face. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

And isn't that how you become tender, vulnerable? The tissue-softening marination of your own mind, the quicksand of mental indulgence? ~ Carmen Maria Machado

That night, I wash myself. The silky suds between my legs are the color and scent of rust, but I am newer than I have ever been. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse. ~ China Machado

I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves. ~ China Machado

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love. ~ Alicia Machado

Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems ~ Romana Machado

Life is the path you beat while you walk it. ~ Antonio Machado

Do not be afraid to get close to your opponent. The closer you are, the more you will learn. ~ Manuel Dos Reis Machado

I do not even struggle to speak. The spark of words dies so deep in my chest, there is not even space to mount them on an exhale. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply. ~ China Machado

I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives! ~ Carlos Machado

Autumn was the worst time to go into the mountains, I thought to myself. To drive into the wilderness when it writhed and gasped for air seemed foolish. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from;
the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for. ~ Antonio Machado

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers. ~ Antonio Machado

I do not have answers to all the problems, but for sure will work to find solutions to as many as I can. ~ Carlos Machado

If, one day, a milky portal had opened up in your bedroom and an older version of yourself had stepped out and told you what you know now, would you have listened? ~ Carmen Maria Machado

He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody. ~ Machado De Assis

...abusers do not need to be, and rarely are, cackling maniacs. They just need to want something and not care how they get it. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

And there was nothing in my eyes. Or even worse -- nothingness. Not the presence of a thing but the presence of a non-thing. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

The ground is my ocean, I'm the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim. ~ Carlos Machado

Truthfully, I despise hotels. I've had such better experiences staying at people's houses and guesthouses; it's so much more comfortable and homey. ~ Rob Machado

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me. ~ Alicia Machado

I think I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world. I travel around looking for the best waves and appreciate it every second. ~ Rob Machado

Why do we teach girls their perspectives are inherently untrustworthy?" I would yell. I want to reclaim these word. After all, melodrama comes from melos, which means music, honey. A drama queen is nonetheless a queen. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

You are embarrassed about your blood, its redness, the way it is just coming out of you with no concern for anyone's feelings. You are (…) embarrassed to be alive. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera. ~ China Machado

Your female crushes were always floating past you, out of reach, but she touches your arm and looks directly at you and you feel like a child buying something with her own money for the first time. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

He was happy because, after such a long study, experimentation, and struggle, he could at last affirm the ultimate truth: there never were and never would be any madmen in Itaguai or anywhere else. ~ Machado De Assis

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at. ~ China Machado

BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men. ~ Alicia Machado

One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I will always remember it. ~ Rob Machado

Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wisdom has found that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Machado De Assis

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't. ~ Antonio Machado

When you think about it, stories have this way of running together like raindrops in a pond. Each is borne from the clouds separate, but once they have come together, there is no way to tell them apart. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side. ~ China Machado

To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast. ~ Rob Machado

A house is never apolitical. It is conceived, constructed, occupied, and policed by people with power, needs, and fears. Windex is political. Si is the incense you burn to hide the smell of sex, or a fight. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

I thought my fire was out,
and stirred the ashes ... .
I burnt my fingers. ~ Antonio Machado

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. ~ Antonio Machado

And when the day arrives for the final voyage
and the ship of no return is set to sail,
you'll find me aboard, traveling light,
almost naked, like the children of the sea. ~ Antonio Machado