Conhecido O Quotes & Sayings

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming. — Billy Graham

Contrary to what most people think, making a decision is one of the easiest decisions in the world, as is more than proved by the fact that we make decision upon decision throughout the day, there, however, we run straight into the heart of the matter, for these decisions always come to us afterward with their particular little problems, or, to make ourselves quite clear, with their rough edges needing to be smoothed, the first of these problems being our capacity for sticking to a decision and the second our willingness to follow it through. — Jose Saramago

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. — Laura Miller

Your breath comes short and quick, you are feverish with excitement; the dinner-bell may ring its clapper off, you pay no attention; friends may die, weddings transpire, houses burn down, they are nothing to you; you sweat and dig and delve with a frantic interest - and all at once you strike it! Up comes a spadeful of earth and quartz that is all lovely with soiled lumps and leaves and sprays of gold. Sometimes — Mark Twain

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad. — Vince Clarke

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it. — Banksy

By the time you read this letter, these words will be those of the past. The me of now is gone. — Fennel Hudson

There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation. — Frederick Lenz

The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered Abdullah, who had been waiting for us on the verandah and who had, I supposed, been alarmed by Emerson's shouts and hurried to discover what disaster had prompted them. The cat got entangled in Abdullah's skirts and a brief interval of staggering (by Abdullah), scratching (by Horus) and swearing (by both parties) ensued before Horus freed himself and departed. — Elizabeth Peters

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to. — Bryan Fuller

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. — Marilyn Vos Savant

A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does." — Honor Tracy

Jules: I'll make tea. That'll help.
Emma: Tea? Tea is your solution? You're not really even British! you spent two months in England! How did they brainwash you?
Jules: You don't like coffee, and you need caffeine.
Emma: I get my caffeine the way right-thinking people get it. From chococlate! — Cassandra Clare

In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them. — Patrick Soon-Shiong

All imagination to be sure, I was already on my way, things may have passed quite differently, but who cares how things pass, provided they pass. All those lips that had kissed me, those hearts that had loved me (it is with the heart one loves, is it not, or am I confusing it with something else?), those hands that had played with mine and those minds that had almost made their own of me! Humans are truly strange. — Samuel Beckett