Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.
I'm like the trunk of a cactus. . . I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.
Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.
The Big Cactus. . . because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.
I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet. " Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.
Adolescence is like cactus.
You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.
In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew
Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult
These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.
I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus. " Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me. " "Always happy to oblige.
The Big Cactus. I will stick you.
Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings
It is only the story. . . that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort;without it,we are blind. Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is allowed to meditate on something that normally we don't stop and stare at, whether it's people or a cactus.
