Adiante Abrantes Quotes & Sayings

Mayakovsky, brazen poet of the revolution, sicced his jeering muses on gourmet fancies: Eat your pineapples, gobble your grouse Your last day is coming, you bourgeois louse! — Anya Von Bremzen

Jerusalem above is a city whose builder and maker is God. Every grace, yea, every degree of grace, is a stone in that building, the topstone whereof is laid in glory, where saints shall more plainly see, how God was not only Founder to begin, but Benefactor also to finish the same. The glory of the work shall not be crumbled and piece-mealed out, some to God and some to the creature, but all entirely paid in to God, and he acknowledged all in all. — William Gurnall

A beautiful person is protected like a beautiful flower in a garden which many gardeners tend. — Bryant McGill

I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons. — Barry Sonnenfeld

Man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others. — Arthur C. Clarke

Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country. — Daisaku Ikeda

Change, of course, is growth, and anything that is not growing is either paralysed or it's not alive, because that's life; we always change and we grow. — Isabel Lucas

Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. — Yehudi Menuhin

The nightmare was shaped like a goddess - a beauty with a body curved to incite reckless sinning. She wore an angry pout that he knew would burn his mouth. She had hair like snow and eyes as cold and fathomless as the deepest reaches of space. How like a nightmare to seduce and terrify at the same time. — Erin Kellison

I try to ignore the fact that I can feel Kieren's hard-on against my ass and that it's perfectly pressing into me. I tell my suddenly happy cunny to stop quivering with excitement. Naughty, puss, that's creepy Kieren rubbing on you. Stop purring, dammit! — Erica Chilson

I didn't have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning. — Irene Cara

When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball. — Roger Clemens

The Men of Faith will play the cup-bearers at this lifelong bacchanal, filling and ever filling again with the warm liquor that the Intelligences, in sad and sober privacy behind the scenes, will brew for the intoxication of their subjects. — Aldous Huxley

The wandering earth herself may be
Only a sudden flaming word,
In clanging space a moment heard,
Troubling the endless reverie.


-from "The Song of the Happy Shepherd — W.B.Yeats

Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure. — Chloe Thurlow