![The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-mexicanis-familiar-with-death-he-jokes-about-it-caresses-it-sleeps-wi.jpg)
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sleep heaven earth
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven. Charles Caleb Colton
sleep dark men
The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course. Charles Dickens
sleep sea house
He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'
sleep imagination sublime
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'
sleep heart personality
--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's. Charles Stross
sleepy easy easy-road
Easy roads make sleepy travellers. Charles Spurgeon
sleep soul church
The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.
sleep gone wake-up
What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born. Alan Watts
sleep acceptance creating-life
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.
mexican painting
My cubist paintings are my most Mexican. Diego Rivera
mexican soul intelligence
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness. Carlos Fuentes
mexican mexico drink
I don't drink anymore for Cinco de Mayo. I celebrate with Mexican food, or as it's known in Mexico: 'food.' Craig Ferguson
mexican-border minorities literature
If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban? Ann Coulter
mexican nicaragua made
And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua. Alex Cox
mexican ingredients starting
I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients. Aaron Sanchez
mexican problem
Now the drug problem just pervades Mexican society. Daniel Wilkinson
mexican ironic three
I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family. Conor Oberst
mexican manhattan citizens
So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker. Alma Guillermoprieto
toys problem glory
Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory. Aiden Wilson Tozer
toys fireman
Firemen have the coolest toys ever! Adam Savage
toys bigger
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours. Daniel Craig
toys
To say that toys make someone violent, I think, is absurd.
toys secretary
A secretary is not a toy. Frank Loesser
toys cracks tough
Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in! Jean Kerr
toys way graves
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave? Fannie Flagg
toys turned
I've got a lot of toys to play with. I just turned 64, and I'm reinventing myself again. Sonny Vaccaro
toys slow-down bigs
I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too. Jason Mewes