Dirceu Guimaraes Quotes & Sayings

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster

Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own? — Arthur C. Clarke

The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent. — Judy Holliday

I did films with Wanda Ventham, Benedict's mother, and we lived in the same area, in Kensington. So I'd be out with my pram and Wanda and I would be talking and there was poor little Benedict, who I suppose was about four, standing there while we were gossiping in the high street for hours! — Una Stubbs

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops. — Henry Adams

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had. — James MacArthur

It wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it's own tail, an Ouroboros of desires. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can. — Amy Tan

Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind. — Damon Galgut

Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... 'have a gun.' — Jeff Cooper

There is a green in the air,
Soft, delectable.
It cushions me lovingly. — Sylvia Plath

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement. — Pete Edochie

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth. — Jane Goodall