Djalma Martinhao Quotes & Sayings

You only live once, but can be born twice. Then, you can live forever. — Abby Morel

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal. — Mao Zedong

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you do not write something original you have written nothing at all. — Steve Levi

But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all ... The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away. — Laurie R. King

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer. — Saul Leiter

Perhaps someone would say I had no choice but to trust her and perhaps this is true, but also, and I understand this now, I love her and I loved her in that rare way, that non-possessive and accepting way that it seems people are always trying and failing to love someone... — Catherine Lacey

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. — George Orwell

Never settle for just good enough, settle for greatness. — James Bundy

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life. — Alain De Botton

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues. You can't do this without discovering your own true voice, and you can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are reading over your shoulder. — Anne Lamott

He had been a tough teenager in New York's Hell's Kitchen. — Mario Puzo