Carlos Alberto Parreira Quotes & Sayings

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer. — Walter Mosley

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period. — Patton Oswalt

Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first, he knew what he was doing. Banach didn't just develop Banach spaces for the sake of it. He wanted to put many spaces under one heading. Without knowing the examples, the whole thing is pointless. — Michael Atiyah

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it. — Lyman Abbott

She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her. — Markus Zusak

Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration. — Honore De Balzac

They never taste who always drink. — Matt Prior

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying. — Rodney Dangerfield

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike. — Eric Bentley

We need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith. — Bob Goff

He'd left soul prints on me. I could never say no to Kick . . . I could never deny the pull his heart had — Nina Levine

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive. — Ivor A. Richards

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal. — Joan D. Vinge

A leader leads," Ragnar said, "and you can't ask men to risk death if you're not willing to risk it yourself. — Bernard Cornwell