Coisas Aleatorias Quotes & Sayings

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.) — Harvey Pekar

They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly." — Kathryn Lasky

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this. — Gisele Bundchen

'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been. — E. M. Forster

There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads. And there arose also the satyrs, and sprites, and the maniacs of the valleys, and the witches, and goblins, and owls, and destroying demons of the air and firmament, and the demoniac phantom host; and they were inciting and sustaining valour and battle with them. — Katharine Mary Briggs

I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine. — Amy Heckerling

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole. — Mark Nepo

I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it. — Ace Frehley

But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned. — John Edward Williams

By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the 1960s. In the Kasparov defeat they recognized that here was a great triumph for programmers, but not one that may compete with the human intelligence that helps us to lead our lives. — Igor Aleksander

Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war. — Nick Cole

Who the hell would consider being the female equivalent of Justin Bieber a curse? If you're whining about the world being your stage and every male on it your thirteen-year-old fan girl, then my sympathy level just dropped exponentially. — Adrianne Brooks

It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other. — Ilana Glazer

I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here ... she was a very wonderful person. — Cissy Houston