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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.


Melissa de la Cruz

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They were friends. That's all she ever seemed to have. Friends. She had enough of them.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Nat didn't know what to make of Ryan Wesson-whether she wanted to slap him or kiss him. Slap him, de...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ «Nunca avancemos para dejar atrás a la cruz, sino solo hacia una más profunda comprensión de la ...
C.J. MAHANEY I've told so many, those were wonderful memories, they were old memories, they were great memories. ...
DEBBIE COX memories were tricky things…they weren’t stable. they changed with perception over time. …they...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Everybody was excited, and a byproduct from that was as we were going through pictures, we were gett...
ARLENE ROSSEN Everybody was excited, and a byproduct from that was as we were going through pictures, we were gett...
ARLENE COHEN ROSSEN The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do.

Kingsley...I can't do this...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but the...
JIMMY PAGE The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and...
GEORGE LUCAS [My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.
KATE SEREDY When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involv...
SETH SHOSTAK They were doubling Melissa. If you could choose one tonight, that's who it was.
KATHY GIBSON I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell...
ADAM HAMILTON La cruz era el plato fuerte de la teología de Pablo. No era simplemente uno de los mensajes de Pabl...
C.J. MAHANEY They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying ...
MATT HAIG They (the players) were all (at the school) last night. There was a vigil. They got to open up a lit...
BOB MARINELLI So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, a...
DEEPAK CHOPRA Coaches were there to watch Melissa, and they saw me, too.
BECCA BRUSZEWSKI I've had dinner with him over in Europe where we were just constantly being interrupted by people wh...
WOODY MILLER Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be tol...
SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaien...
HON. SIR GEORGE EULAS FOSTER I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the...
GLORIA ARROYO The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
VERA NAZARIAN We're looking at it constantly. There's kids that take pictures of themselves with drugs, with weapo...
FRED HARRAN The family making this claim were constantly taking pictures of me. And I politely asked them to sto...
DREW BARRYMORE I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would k...
BEN OKRI Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chi...
TIM WALKER The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories wer...
JOHN CONNOLLY We were sitting watching television, had finished a nice dinner, everything was fine. Other people w...
SHELLEY BERMAN I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, s...
GLENDA MILLARD When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold ...
JIM HENSON COMPANY Melissa was still deep in conversation with Toby. For no good reason, they were arguing about the ve...
KAT GREEN Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were...
WALLY LAMB You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories tha...
BEN OKRI I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone e...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me intereste...
LAURA CARMICHAEL Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
HERMANN HESSE I told my mom and told her to make sure to make sure to pack all the baby pictures. Pictures are goo...
DERRICK POPE People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't ...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER We literally had thousands of people coming in and out of our house. Everyone remembers her gracious...
KATHY HENDRICKS Los efectos de la conservación de la Tierra dependen de la conservación de las causas.
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA Life is your world in pictures. Don’t just take memories, make memories.
LILY CHATTERJEE And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As i...
ALAN W. WATTS La juventud es un engaño -un engaño de la prensa y libros de texto. ¡La mejor época de la vida! ...
HERMANN HESSE La seguridad de la Fe vence a la duda de la Razón.
CRISTO LEON So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures...
DOUGLAS SIRK They were on patrol in a convoy when they were hit by what they told me was a roadside bomb. It woun...
JOE BRIXEY Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.
KAREN HEALEY Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.
ANNETTE FUNICELLO My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and t...
PAULE MARSHALL My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and th...
PAULE MARSHALL I was worried as a Johnny Cash fan that I wouldn't like the performances. They were surprisingly tal...
JOANNE JOHNSON They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, wh...
GLORIA WHELAN They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first o...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, techn...
N. K. JEMISIN In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
GEORGE ELIOT They told me they were certain it was him.
JUAN MORENO We were willing to explore ways in which [computer makers] might create more choices in browsing tec...
WILLIAM NEUKOM We were told that they were dummy shells that were being used, so as just to break through a hole in...
RUSLAN TEBIEV People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
SCARLETT THOMAS If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out....
GWEN IFILL Well may they boast themselves an ancient Nation; For they were bred e'er manners were in fashion
JOHN DRYDEN Yet in truth the lives of most people have meaning only within the network of stories they tell one ...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.
HARUKI MURAKAMI My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for moder...
PATRICIA BRIGGS In the seventh century the Arabs created a new world into which other peoples were drawn. In the nin...
ALBERT HOURANI People told consumer surveys they were miserable, but they were willing to borrow money to pursue a ...
IAN SHEPHERDSON They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.
JAY CARR Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We are now in the process of accomplishing this. Everything is in flux now, but we are moving forwar...
BOB NEWMAN ¡La poesía no es de quien la escribe, sino de quien la usa!
ANTONIO SKáRMETA But when we got there, they told me that they were only taking people who came in (government-sponso...
ARMAND WATSON I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free fee...
RIVER PHOENIX I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my ...
BRYCE COURTENAY It was not child pornography. From what I understand it was a site where teen girls would post pictu...
DIANA PARISI The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their...
ESTHER B. FEIN History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hal...
NANCY HORAN It was the miracle day and the disaster day also because there were a lot of miracle stories to be t...
GENE POSTON It's always been there for Melissa. She's always taken a back seat, not wanting to get involved. She...
JOE MASLEH They were touched, our hearts were touched and it was just a moving experience. They came as strange...
JAY MILLER He always told me the people in Armstrong County were wonderful and I found out he was right,
JOYCE SMITH Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered...
ASHWIN SANGHI They were getting him prepared. I saw his arms moving and I saw his legs moving so I knew he was mov...
DEBRA ZERDA ...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that eve...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the t...
ANDRA DAY We were up one so I told them to not act like we were down, but that we had to match (La Salle's) in...
MARK SAUSVILLE In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.
TINA TURNER I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem ...
J. COLE They were caught in the blast. There was a lot of rubble around and they were basically scared. They...
JOHN SPARROW 'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio p...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS These pretty pictures and bright medallions were not "money"; they were symbols for an idea which sp...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For fifteen years Mr. Polly was a respectable shopkeeper in Fishbourne. Years they were in which eve...
H.G. WELLS Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was...
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MELISSA DE LA CRUZ It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful.
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with the little petal gir...
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"No, you're just early.
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JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Songs of the Soul

On a dark night,
Inflamed by love-longing -
O exquisite risk!...
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SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ If dual torment is to be my one condition,
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DE LA TOUR Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA LA FONTAINE The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where perform...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments a...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA Your anger is a gift.
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WARREN DE LA RUE By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual a...
WARREN DE LA RUE For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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INES DE LA FRESSANGE I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, alwa...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered e...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hi...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I w...
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INES DE LA FRESSANGE People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfel...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Out of difficulties grow miracles.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any othe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Love and friendship exclude each other.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad example...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People who make no noise are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA My customers are successful workingwomen.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the c...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It&#...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and sa...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individu...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is m...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have ...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Every season I am inspired by women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, get...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of bein...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si da...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD