Will Garcia Quotes
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.
Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.
I wasn’t a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody. I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study.
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.
For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.
Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...
Style is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself.
It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.
Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don't like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
