Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hirsch

In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods.

Joseph Campbell

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

Edward Burnett Tylor

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

Sarah Vowell

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

Sarah Vowell

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.

Chris Cornell

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

Dennis Prager

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

Deborah Tannen

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

Debra Messing

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.

Barton Seaver

The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.

Eddie Van Halen

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

Earl Nightingale

The key that unlocks energy is desire.

Deepak Chopra

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

Dick Taylor

Governance is key to a robust Health IT system.

Charles Mackay

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

Jason Chaffetz

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

Anton Chekhov

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Baltasar Gracian

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Bryan Gilmore

I think that's overrated. Sage will be fine.

J. M. Coetzee

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

Publilius Syrus

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Margaret Sanger

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.

Mason Cooley

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.