Peruvians Quotes

• Como es imposible saber lo que realmente pasa, los peruanos mentimos, inventamos, soñamos y nos refugiamos en la ilusión. Por estas extrañas circunstancias, la vida peruana, una vida en la que tan pocos leen realmente, se ha vuelto literaria.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Sueño, Mentira, Extraño

  Mario Vargas Llosa (1989). "La vida real de Alejandro Mayta", Vintage

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• I was a sound engineer, and all of these gurus and shamans would come, and I would record the workshops they were teaching. And I took part in a shamanic journeying workshop, and this woman leading the workshop had brought Ayahuasca, which is a Peruvian hallucinogen and contains DMT.

  Larkin Grimm

  Teaching, Dmt, Ayahuasca

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

  L'Wren Scott

  Simple, Spices, Traditional

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

  Helena Christensen

  World, Cuisine, Serious

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Sarcastic, Boat, Incas

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• I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.

  Edward Hirsch

  Drama, Paris, Manhattan

  "Nace un poeta". Entrevista en Big Think, bigthink.com.

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• Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Night, Thinking, Decision

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). "As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations", Robson Book Ltd

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• I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.

  Técnica inmortal

  Strong, New York, Army

  Fuente: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Me ocurrieron muchas cosas con los chamanes de Perú. Había una serie de experiencias diferentes que se aprenden haciendo rituales y tomando ayahuasca [un alucinógeno común de la selva tropical] es la clave para entender la conciencia nativa y la percepción del mundo con los chamanes peruanos que no conseguirías a menos que hubieras estado con ellos, pero cada tradición chamánica, incluida la tradición nativa americana de medicina y ritual de limpieza, como la Danza del Sol o la cabaña de sudación.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Nativo Americano, Ayahuasca, Sudoración

  Fuente: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse.

  Harold Ross

  San Francisco, Taste, Drink

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• I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture; he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Way, Amazon

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• As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Boys, Cups, Different

  "Daniel Alarcón" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Father, Italian, Swiss

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• Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines!
  In the soft light of these serenest skies;
  From the broad highland region, black with pines,
  Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise,
  Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold
  In rosy flushes on the virgin gold.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Light, Sky

  William Cullen Bryant, “To The Apennines”

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• Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

  Charles Churchill

  Purple, Shining, Vices

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill ...”, p.77

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• There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

  Terry Eagleton

  Justice, Humanity, Fairness

  "Los que están en el poder tienen razón al ver el multiculturalismo como una amenaza", por Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. 20 de febrero de 2007.

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• La música de flauta peruana es . . . guay. En esta música aún no han inventado la revolución industrial que lleva a la puntualidad excesiva ni el experimento fallido que llaman familia nuclear. Esta es la música de los elementos, sin manchar, sin ensayar.

  Kate Braverman

  Nuclear Families, Elements, Revolution

  Kate Braverman (1998). "Advertencias para embarcaciones pequeñas: Historias"

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• Mi mente analítica, antaño tan aguda, se ha embotado de tal manera a causa de las interminables horas bajo el sol abrasador, dando vueltas en chimeneas estrechas, tirando de cargas imposiblemente pesadas, congelándome el culo fuera de .... que ahora mi estado mental es comparable al de un indio peruano, bien avivado por las hojas de coca.

  Warren G. Harding

  Escalada, Mente, Caliente

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• He ido a la ciudad a comprar unas últimas cosas que necesitamos para la expedición: Repelente de avispas peruanas, cepillos de dientes, melocotones en conserva y una canoa ignífuga. Tardaré un rato en encontrar los melocotones, así que no me esperéis de vuelta hasta la hora de cenar. Stephano, el sustituto de Gustav, llegará hoy en taxi. Por favor, haz que se sienta bienvenido. Como saben, sólo faltan dos días para la expedición, así que por favor trabajen muy duro hoy. Tu vertiginoso tío, Monty

  Daniel Handler

  Tíos, Dos, Necesidades

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• I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian heritage; he's absolutely striking.

  Sandra Bullock

  Thinking, Heritage, Facts

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