Abrupto Priberam Quotes & Sayings

Aparrently, life is not a wish-granting factory. - Augustus Waters — John Green

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll. — John Mellencamp

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. — Bill Bryson

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound. — Chad Sugg

Mackay told us that the Children's Crusade started in 1213, when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in Germany and France, and selling them in North Africa as slaves. Thirty thousand children volunteered, thinking they were going to Palestine. They were no doubt idle and deserted children who generally swarm in great cities, nurtured on vice and daring, said Mackay, and ready for anything. — Kurt Vonnegut

Ted, have you ever stayed in a Third-World village? Even for one night? — Michael Crichton

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone. — Ray Conniff

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. — Thomas Swick

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. — Geraldine Brooks

No one's going to be interested in a war fought over a, a quite pleasant lady, moderately attractive in a good light. Are they?" Eric was nearly in tears. "But it said her face launched a thousand ships - " "That's what you call metaphor," said Rincewind. "Lying," the sergeant explained, kindly. — Terry Pratchett

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players. — Marc Andreesen

How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed
to any other qualities than those of brutes. — Aleister Crowley

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his ... It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him. — George Bernard Shaw