No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equali...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a st...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels ...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into i...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't m...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without be...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover ...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA What is happening in the country for such political, moral and cultural blindness to take hold? Main...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take ref...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Prosperity or egalitarianism / you have to choose. I favor freedom / you never achieve real equality...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submer...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Vicente Fox has a truly titanic task upon his shoulders because dismantling an authoritarian apparat...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Cuando creí que iba a perder la razón ante tanto sufrimiento. Así descubrí que un ser humano no ...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Feast of the Goat. It has been like a huge birthday present that this film based on one of my novels...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA You cannot teach creativity -- how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scien...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, th...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happe...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems da...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in part...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep insi...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a w...
DOUG VARGAS I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus...
ELIZABETH VARGAS The fact there is a Latino on the ballot adds a level of excitement to the race, so Latinos will be ...
ARTURO VARGAS Voters in the West are a neglected constituency. Presidential candidates have a responsibility to kn...
ARTURO VARGAS Ensuring adequate resources for our schools and closing the achievement gap for Latino students is a...
ARTURO VARGAS There has been a steady increase since the 1994 election, except for 2002, ... which was attributabl...
ARTURO VARGAS Obesity is a health risk impacting all our communities and we are encouraged by the commitment commu...
ARTURO VARGAS The fiesta would be celebrated for two and a half weeks, from Aug. 28 to Sept. 15 or 16. They had ho...
ARMANDO VARGAS We can see how it could me misinterpreted. The policy applies to all products. We're applying it acr...
INES VARGAS This is no slur on our incredible talented and hardworking correspondents. The fact of the matter is...
ELIZABETH VARGAS I've had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a...
CHAVELA VARGAS I didn't think it was that bad. I could still see. I wasn't retreating. I would have stepped it up i...
FERNANDO VARGAS I am a perfectionist.
FERNANDO VARGAS I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a l...
ELIZABETH VARGAS Jesus kinda fools around and gives you parables. He doesn't oftentimes say exactly what he means...
JUAN VARGAS This is a very good thing for our customers in terms of our Trustworthy Computing initiative.
INES VARGAS They will try to solicit foster parents. There's a shortage of foster parents in Arizona. Children g...
ARMANDO VARGAS At the beginning they wanted me to sing as sweet as a flower, even Ernesto Alonso put me a strapless...
CHAVELA VARGAS Others tried to tell me not to fight like that, but it wasn't until Danny Smith came along that I st...
FERNANDO VARGAS Mary's great grandfather was from China and migrated to Mexico. Her son, Lee, was the first one to h...
ARMANDO VARGAS The cost is being paid for by gas and impact fees. The price depends on material costs and availabil...
GARY VARGAS A True friend see's the first tear, stops the second, and prevents the third.
KYLE VARGAS Despite massive geographical distances, we were really bonding and I feel jelling into a great team.
ELIZABETH VARGAS Be very wary of anyone who tells you can get away with this, because you may get away with it one ti...
KEN VARGAS There's only one of you in the world. Make your name heard (in a good way) Give people a reason to s...
KYLE VARGAS I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
CHAVELA VARGAS I went to Mexico because it has a magic that does not have any other country in the world, but I ins...
CHAVELA VARGAS Do the work so that the success of silence to noise
TIMOTHY VARGAS This was about as unplanned as it gets.
ELIZABETH VARGAS It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a w...
DOUG VARGAS When you like something, you should do it all night long.
CHAVELA VARGAS We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.
ELIZABETH VARGAS The indictment today has big implications for the Republican Party and the President. And ABC's Geor...
ELIZABETH VARGAS This is not something you just sort of go 'Oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on, ... You d...
ELIZABETH VARGAS This is not something you just sort of go, 'Oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on,' ... You...
ELIZABETH VARGAS It provides an opportunity for viewers to see a more in-depth coverage of the story and a more perso...
ELIZABETH VARGAS I'm very thankful. The generosity is overwhelming. It's good to see there are people willing to help...
ELIZABETH VARGAS [Douglas told a New York Daily News columnist that his report of a Douglas-Dowd relationship] got me...
ELIZABETH VARGAS Congressman DeLay is the single most powerful member of Congress. This has got to affect the Republi...
ELIZABETH VARGAS On World News Tonight , one of the most powerful men in Washington indicted in a campaign finance sc...
ELIZABETH VARGAS We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.
ELIZABETH VARGAS I've never hit a guy with that many power shots and not have him go down. He's a tough kid.
DEVIN VARGAS I hadn't seen these guys since Athens, but it seems like we picked up right where we left off, just ...
DEVIN VARGAS As an Olympian, I know I have to prove something extra, ... In the Olympics, I was having fun. Befor...
DEVIN VARGAS I kind of went in there bigheaded, ... I haven't fought anyone with that (style) since I was maybe 1...
DEVIN VARGAS He tells us what we should and shouldn't do.
DENIS VARGAS I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.
ELIZABETH VARGAS I was saddened by the fact that I was not given the opportunity to resolve the issues facing teacher...
EDWIN VARGAS It looks like a divided union.
EDWIN VARGAS I started in elementary school. I tried clarinet first since my mom had played it but I didn't like ...
ERIC VARGAS I didn't achieve my goal (state championship), so for that reason, I'm not happy with myself. But I ...
ERIC VARGAS Mr. Gonzales ... ?
ELIZABETH VARGAS This is a 230-calorie snack you know. See? I've worked hard.
FERNANDO VARGAS I was looking for that pitch, a fastball. I didn't try to do much. I just tried to hit the ball.
CLAUDIO VARGAS We've got a good defense, and when you've got a good tempo in the game everybody is focused on the g...
CLAUDIO VARGAS I don't know. Next time I pitch [at home] I will try to do what I did today. The only thing I have t...
CLAUDIO VARGAS I felt pretty good out there. I had my fastball and change-up. I've been working a lot in the bullpe...
CLAUDIO VARGAS I felt pretty good. All my pitches worked today and my location was good.
CLAUDIO VARGAS I'm happy. I worked hard for that. That's what I like to do.
CLAUDIO VARGAS I feel happy. That's what I like to do, be a starter, and I think I did my job in the starting rotat...
CLAUDIO VARGAS I like to start. If they put me in the bullpen, I go out there and do my job. I feel very good about...
CLAUDIO VARGAS I feel pretty good. [I] missed a couple of pitches. My arm and my whole body feels very good.
CLAUDIO VARGAS The location was better early in the game. It's hard to throw a breaking ball here, especially in th...
CLAUDIO VARGAS $500 a month for family health insurance, how can I pay that? Even with the raise, we make to little...
CLARA VARGAS I am very hurt, but very grateful that our fight will continue.
CLARA VARGAS We want what every worker in the country wants: a better future for their family.
CLARA VARGAS The mayor has been here along with commissioners, Congress members. They have all promised to try to...
CLARA VARGAS I was winning the fight with one eye. If I was him and I would've seen me, I would've gone for broke...
FERNANDO VARGAS I was wondering why they stopped the fight. I was the one pushing the action, backing him into the r...
FERNANDO VARGAS Absolutely I'm asking for revenge.
FERNANDO VARGAS I didn't think it was that bad. I could still see.
FERNANDO VARGAS I just pick my spots... I have always been a technician,
FERNANDO VARGAS I said it before, that I need to look great for my fans and for me to demand the fight. That's what ...
FERNANDO VARGAS I'm at the point in my life where I'm telling myself I'm not doing that do my body no more. I'm 27 a...
FERNANDO VARGAS I am thinking of one person and one person only, and that's Shane Mosley. You (media) take my words ...
FERNANDO VARGAS We're looking at late May as the start date for construction.
GARY VARGAS I got the ball up in the fifth inning and they took advantage of it a little bit. Joe said that was ...
JASON VARGAS Those guys are good athletes out there. They're one of the best teams in the country. They are there...
JASON VARGAS He's a great guy to throw to. I've thrown to him a couple of years now between college and the Minor...
JASON VARGAS I felt like this was the best I've thrown in a long time. I just got two balls up, and I got caught ...
JASON VARGAS I felt like I was throwing pitches where I wanted and wasn't getting rewarded for them.
JASON VARGAS I wasn't tired. I just wasn't fooling anybody. They were hitting pitches they were missing earlier i...
JASON VARGAS I'm not here to pitch like a rookie -- or act like one. I'm here to help these guys get to the playo...
JASON VARGAS I think of Jered as another regular guy. He was highly sought-after coming out of college. On the fi...
JASON VARGAS I wouldn't want it any other way. If it's the game deciding if we're going to go to the playoffs or ...
JASON VARGAS I've never been in a game of this magnitude. I'm looking forward to it.
JASON VARGAS We changed the end of support dates to map to the monthly security update release cycle so our custo...
INES VARGAS It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.
ELIZABETH VARGAS Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a...
ELIZABETH VARGAS For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.
ELIZABETH VARGAS I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.
ELIZABETH VARGAS I saw that Drew miss-hit it and it was a left-footed shot and I am left footed, so I decided to try ...
JUAN VARGAS You can see the need, just look.
JUAN VARGAS You know who's going to get hurt? It's the elderly woman who has never had a claim, never done anyth...
JUAN VARGAS A lot of the bills were written because a natural disaster had happened, and people were writing bil...
JUAN VARGAS When we opened the casino resort nearly two years ago, we knew we'd have to find a more efficient wa...
RON VARGAS You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ...
MARIO BALOTELLI They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forg...
MARIO BALOTELLI Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of ...
MARIO TESTINO A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
MARIO PUZO Racism springs from ignorance.
MARIO BALOTELLI As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating e...
MARIO BATALI We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry se...
MARIO BATALI I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion ...
MARIO CANTONE Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in tha...
MARIO MONTI In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budget...
MARIO MONTI I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is g...
MARIO CUOMO You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
MARIO CUOMO It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn't do it. And vice versa -...
MARIO ANDRETTI Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if maj...
MARIO DRAGHI Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. A...
MARIO PUZO Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.
MARIO PUZO Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betr...
MARIO PUZO Michael: This used to be my father's old study -- it's changed. I remember there used to be a big de...
MARIO PUZO Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
MARIO BURATA Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, b...
MARIO LEMIEUX With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.
MARIO PUZO He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero wh...
MARIO PUZO You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
MARIO CUOMO Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit...
MARIO ANDRETTI I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw ...
MARIO CUOMO There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, ...
MARIO SAVIO Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yoursel...
MARIO ANDRETTI If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
MARIO ANDRETTI Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourse...
MARIO ANDRETTI Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of ...
MARIO ANDRETTI I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example i...
MARIO CUOMO Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
MARIO PUZO Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
MARIO PUZO As far as I'm concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressivenes...
MARIO ANDRETTI The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the crea...
MARIO CUOMO A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
MARIO ANDRETTI Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there'...
MARIO BATALI I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.
MARIO CANTONE How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.
MARIO GABELLI If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of ...
MARIO CUOMO A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
MARIO BOTTA There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.
MARIO LOPEZ For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
MARIO BOTTA I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only...
MARIO TEGUH Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise wha...
MARIO TEGUH I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God f...
MARIO TEGUH Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.
MARIO TEGUH What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We ...
MARIO PUZO Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the eveni...
MARIO BATALI If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?
MARIO ANDRETTI My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and worki...
MARIO CUOMO There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British r...
MARIO TESTINO My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you c...
MARIO TESTINO I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it...
MARIO ANDRETTI When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.
MARIO ANDRETTI You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.
MARIO ANDRETTI Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
MARIO ANDRETTI I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never ...
MARIO ANDRETTI A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one ...
MARIO ANDRETTI I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young...
MARIO ANDRETTI The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call '...
MARIO ANDRETTI Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.
MARIO ANDRETTI You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. O...
MARIO ANDRETTI You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
MARIO ANDRETTI With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it...
MARIO ANDRETTI I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.
MARIO ANDRETTI If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
MARIO ANDRETTI Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
MARIO ANDRETTI I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
MARIO ANDRETTI Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you o...
MARIO ANDRETTI Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
MARIO ANDRETTI If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
MARIO ANDRETTI