Beatriz Milhazes Quotes & Sayings

We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good. — Jeff Bezos

It's a very strange experience being on set of 'Breaking Bad;' you never know what's coming next for your character. I feel like I don't even know if I'm going to live through the next scene I'm in. It's exciting to work on. — Laura Fraser

The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time. — Kurt Vonnegut

England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that. — Jeff Thomson

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper — Thurston Moore

Its powers?' Dallben answered with a sad smile. 'My dear boy, this is a bit of metal hammered into a rather unattractive shape; it could better have been a pruning hook or a plow iron. Its powers? Like all weapons, only those held by him who wields it. What yours may be, I can in no wise say. — Lloyd Alexander

The problem with mad people is not that they are mad, but that they are suffering from a particular brand of madness that the majority are not. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. — Dag Hammarskjold

Of those who have commanded battalions and squadrons, only the names remain. The human race has nothing to show for a hundred battles that have been waged. But the great men I speak to you about have prepared pure and lasting pleasures for men yet to be born. A canal lock uniting two seas, a painting by Poussin, a beautiful tragedy, a newly discovered truth-these are things a thousand times more precious than all the annals of the court or all the accounts of military campaigns. You know that, with me, great men come first and heroes last.

I call great men all those who have excelled in creating what is useful or agreeable. The plunderers of the provinces are merely heroes. — Voltaire

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Can an entire city be haunted? Haunted — Stephen King

I'm a woman. I understand this. What's the reason for it to hold me back? — Elizabeth Redmond

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating. — Marisha Pessl

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language. — Michael Ondaatje