Haroldo De Oliveira Quotes & Sayings

Such a number of looking-glasses! oh Lord! there was no getting away from one's self. — Jane Austen

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. — William Feather

All joy ... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. — C.S. Lewis

Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places. — Shannon L. Alder

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views. — Sharon Begley

When I was making a shift ... from one thing to another I didn't want to be answering questions: 'How come you're doing this?' 'How come you're doing that?' so I didn't allow anyone in my studio and I just worked away in there. — Joe Fafard

I keep getting compared to Marina and the Diamonds because she's kind of in the same place as me at the moment. It's quite annoying being compared, actually, because it almost downgrades your work and makes you feel like you're just another female artist. — Ellie Goulding

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe. — Dane DeHaan

My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived. — Waris Ahluwalia

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them. — Victor Hugo

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation. — Paul Valery