Senobio Diaz Quotes

People like her got addictive personalities. You don't want to be catching that. ~ Junot Diaz

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait. ~ Cameron Diaz

Everyone warned her that the U.S. was a difficult place where even the Devil got his ass beat ~ Junot Diaz

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books. ~ Junot Diaz

It's like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it's biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That ~ Junot Diaz

I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer. ~ Cameron Diaz

I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it. ~ Cameron Diaz

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel.
This is how you lose her. ~ Junot Diaz

I send messages to the White House continuously. ~ Mario Diaz-Balart

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman. ~ Cameron Diaz

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)! ~ Cameron Diaz

She has the scared, hunted look of the unlucky. ~ Junot Diaz

No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed. ~ Junot Diaz

There's something about moonlight on the body and things happening sort of free and open. Outdoors is something I'm totally game and down for. ~ Cameron Diaz

I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola. ~ Junot Diaz

Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November. ~ Lincoln Diaz-Balart

I dream about oblivion like other people dream of good sex ... ~ Junot Diaz

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee. ~ Cameron Diaz

Casa de Campo has got beaches the way the rest of the Island has got problems. These, though, have no merengue, no little kids, nobody trying to sell you chicharrones, and there's a massive melanin deficit in evidence. Every fifty feet there's at least one Eurofuck beached out on a towel like some scary pale monster that the sea's vomited up. ~ Junot Diaz

But most of all books (I say again and again) are like the Thirty-Mile Woman from Toni Morrison's Beloved: 'She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.' ~ Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. ~ Leah Price

Someone came up to me and told me that [his opponent's] knee was hurt, and he said to me, attack his knee, I'm like, 'Yeah right, I'm not going out to attack this guy's knee.' It just doesn't ... it's not realistic to go after his injury, unless they got a cut the same week, then it's like, yeah, hit him in the eye, because the [expletive] is going to re-open and now you wouldn't fight on the cut. Maybe on a cut you want to take advantage of it, that makes sense. ~ Nick Diaz

I know what it means to be moved by a book in my body so much that I go looking for its analog in the real world.
[From an interview with Complex magazine, 12/2012] ~ Junot Diaz

That's life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it's nothing. If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough. ~ Junot Diaz

The first country that I went to outside of America was Japan and I was completely shocked - especially since I was 16 and over there by myself. I was like: "I don't get it; there's nothing in English!" ~ Cameron Diaz

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her. ~ Junot Diaz

A romantic she was, but not a pendeja. ~ Junot Diaz

I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it. ~ Cameron Diaz

Facts are a strange thing ... when you know the facts to be true, they turn you into a revolutionary. ~ Richard Diaz

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program. ~ Mario Diaz-Balart

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

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. ~ Lincoln Diaz-Balart

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'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey. ~ Junot Diaz

In my loneliness, I kept waiting for that sententious conversation with a stranger who was obviously a proxy for God, during which we affirmed man's inner goodness and the divine signature in all things. There was nothing of the sort. ~ Glenn Diaz

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling. ~ Junot Diaz

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks. ~ Cameron Diaz

Porfirio Rubirosa. ~ Junot Diaz

You have to decide where and when, you said. If you leave it up to me I'll want to see you every day. ~ Junot Diaz

She saw our young minds as bright, spiky sunflowers in need of light, and arranged us as close to the TV as possible to maximize our exposure. ~ Junot Diaz

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar. ~ Cameron Diaz

Nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. ~ Porfirio Diaz