Isabel > Isabel's Quotes

“No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.”
― Luis Valdez

“She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her wrist.”
― Amy Efaw, After

“Eché mi esperanza al mar:
y aún fue en el mar, mi esperanza
verde-mar...”
― Dulce María Loynaz, A Woman in Her Garden: Selected Poems

“I want
you to have
this,

all the beauty in my eyes, and the grace of my mouth,
all the splendor of my strength,

all the
wonder of the musk parts
of my
body,

for are we
not talking about real love, real
love?”
― Mirabai

“I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders;
and now you want me to climb
on a jackass? Try to be serious.”
― Mirabai

“INNO ALLA DONNA - A. Merini
Stupenda
immacolata fortuna
per te tutte le creature
del regno
si sono aperte
e tu sei diventata la regina
delle nostre ombre
per te gli uomini
hanno preso
innumerevoli voli
creato l’alveare del
pensiero
per te donna è sorto
il mormorio dell’acqua
unica grazia
e tremi per i tuoi
incantesimi
che sono nelle tue mani
e tu hai un sogno
per ogni estate
un figlio per ogni pianto
un sospetto d’amore
per ogni capello
ora sei donna
tutto un perdono
e così come vi abita
il pensiero divino
fiorirà in segreto
attorniato
dalla tua grazia.”
― Alda Merini

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
― Salvador Dali

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Traté de ahogar mis penas... pero las condenadas aprendieron a nadar.”
― Frida Kahlo

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.”
― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
― Salvador Dali

“I am the washing machine of love. And if you have no idea what I mean, maybe it’s time to let some laundry into your life.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Love is a green sky on a blue pasture, and I am the flying cow eating it all up.”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

“Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.”
― Jimmy Buffett

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.”
― André Breton

“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra”
― Andre Breton

“She had two lips like strawberries, and the seeds gave her kisses texture. I preferred kissing her over two scoops of vanilla ice cream.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
― Yves Saint Laurent

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

“If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope