Goulart Linguica Quotes & Sayings

I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you — Naomi Novik

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough. — Stephen Greenblatt

Do not go by my humble beginnings. Be wary of my enormous vision. — Manoj Arora

The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last. — Larry Brilliant

But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves, abstraction combined with cruelty. Men have felt it sometimes when they went through wild forests, and felt that the animals there were at once innocent and pitiless. They might ignore or slay. How would you like to pass ten mortal hours in a parlour with an absent-minded tiger? — G.K. Chesterton

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

to understand a people, you need to wade into their culture. It's culture that tells their tale. And music is culture. — Daniel Suarez

He is raw sex in a bottle, uncorked. And somebody needs to cork it! — Karen Marie Moning

It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form. — Michel Foucault

For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed. — Henry Miller