Top 637 Quotes & Sayings by Cuban Authors - Page 5

Michael Bisping just speaks to speak; he just talks to talk. He just tries to open his mouth so that something can be heard, but nothing's going to come out.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

I try to give my kids everything I never had.

I love people watching.

My husband is a huge source of support and love.

I don't like feeling stuck, like I'm not going anywhere.

Being a first-generation Cuban American, my story represents the American Dream.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

The only thing that matters is what God wants, what the fans think, and what the UFC asks for.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

The first 'Blade Runner' is a cool movie. It's a classic. Just to be part of the sequel was such an honor and a beautiful learning experience.

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.

I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.

I want to concentrate on baseball, which is the best thing I know how to do.

I get along great with all of my exes. That's really cool. That's a good sign.

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance.

Time is in God's hands.

My children are everything to me. And the three of them are driving me crazy.

On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.

Because I'm a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I don't know who I can trust and who is using me for who I am.

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'

There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.

People's opinions, you've got to respect them.

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

Short track is like metal rock. You kind of always got to be on your toes.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.

I wish I would have started MMA earlier, but it was out of my hands. It was in God's hands.

I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

When someone meets me it's 'Oh, you're the flag-bearer guy!'

The very first pharmaceutical commercial I ever heard was 15 seconds of the product and 45 seconds of side effects, so I know that this cannot be good for you.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

I've had lots of wonderful people help motivate me over the years to work hard and write.

At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and it's more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. It's a lot more fun now with the family.

I knew that Michael Bisping didn't have good wrestling or grappling. I knew this guy had nothing for St-Pierre.

I love love. I'm, like, obsessed with it.

I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever they need to do to prepare, more often than not they're not in a very professional environment where you've got a high performance director and a coach that are really monitoring your daily activities.

I always told myself that if baseball was not fun anymore, then I would move on from it.

I don't have any style.

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

I never read comic books as a kid.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first three movies, all in Cuba.

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.