Desconhecesse Quotes & Sayings

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying. — Ivan Klima

When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this pervasive atmosphere of fear and anxiety. Every morning after an episode of your show airs, everyone is fixated on the numbers to try and determine how the show did. — Jeffrey Klarik

Whether out of professional pique or some instinct of fear, the ship's mascot - a cat named Dowie, after Captain Turner's predecessor - fled the ship that night, for points unknown. — Erik Larson

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in. — Jock Sturges

The people didn't really want to be saints of self-deprivation and hatred of the world. They knew that the world would sooner or later deprive them of all it had given them, but still they liked it. — Wendell Berry

As if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness. — Sharon Olds

It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people. — Laura Ruby

If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold. — Anna Freeman

He'd wait. I turned to go into the house and he pulled me back. His hands slid under my shirt and my breath caught. The wire, — Janet Evanovich

Too often Jesus Christ was not my Master but a bystander I visited with at church occasionally. — James MacDonald

Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! — Herge

Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home. — Marshall McLuhan

Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau