Branco Quotes & Sayings

Friendship is a mysterious encounter that takes place in the soul. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Up the coast of the New World, the ship bearing ten million bananas ground out its course, every minute the waste heaving brokenly around it more brilliant as the moon rose off the starboard bow and moved into the sky with effortless guile , unashamed of the stigmata blemishing the face she showed from the frozen fogs of the Grand Banks to the jungles of Brazil where along the Rio Branco they knew her for a girl who loved her brother the sun; and the sun, suspicious, trapped her in her evil passion by drawing a blackened hand across her face, leaving the marks which betrayed her and betray her still. — William Gaddis

I'm on a long journey around and through myself ... — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Your face expresses a simple majesty, your look is that of a captive princess. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it. — Thelonious Monk

Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem. — Naya Rivera

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The more things you do, the more you can do. — Lucille Ball

I was overcome by the simplicity of the brook and abandoned my envy and desire for bravery, and simply prayed: Lord, give me the quietness of the waters of this little brook and like it I will amalgamate myself in thee! — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase ... — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

The important thing in life is to be. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

And you, what did you do with your mother's talents
when pain made her suffer the ground
you dragged yourself across toward Calvary.
Every day she asks:
Are you dead?
And I say: arise.
You haven't finished all your talents yet:
all of us are rotten through
and the only thing we've doubled is our doubt. — Rosa Alice Branco

My poetry is the highest valuable thing I have to make you smile ... — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Every pain is repeated in other places and other lives, every joy is repeated in other places and other lives. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Daisy, simple and discreet flower,
That earned the heart of this poet. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

All work is the avoidance of harder work. — James Richardson

Little,
It is a small measure
But can you measure love? — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Every soul yearns for freedom. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion ... — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level. — Terry Brooks

Loneliness why do you accompany me if I wish to be alone? — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious. — Anthony Trollope