Djalma Fonseca Quotes & Sayings

This is a bad land for gods, said Shadow. As an opening statement it wasn't Friends, Romans, countrymen, but it would do. — Neil Gaiman

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time. — Richard Simmons

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words. — V. I. Arnold

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate. — Charles M. Schulz

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy. — George Eliot

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched. — Paul Haggis

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. — Itzhak Perlman

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe? — Leonardo Da Vinci

All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living — Gregory Of Nazianzus

A baby isn't meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian. — Billy Graham

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression. — Condoleezza Rice

How come you write the way you do?" an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who was visiting. Without missing a beat, Don replied, "Because Samuel Beckett was already writing the way he does."
Asked another, smiling but serious, "How can we become better writers than we are?"
"Well," DB advised, "for starters, read through the whole history of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics up through last semester. That might help."
"But Coach Barth has already advised us to read all of literature, from Gilgamesh up through last semester ... "
"That, too," Donald affirmed, and twinkled that shrewd Amish-farmer-from-West-11th-Street twinkle of his. "You're probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything. — John Barth

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. — Honore De Balzac

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you. — Eric Clapton

While they're in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I'll probably always say 'we,' even though I've resigned as the CEO. It's kind of hard to break a 30-year habit. — Linda McMahon