Jarbas Passarinho Quotes & Sayings

Get a job writing fortune cookies instead. I could try to write really American ones. Already, I've jotted down a few of them. Objects create happiness. The animals are pleased to be of use. Your cities will shine forever. Death will not touch you. — Jenny Offill

The structural or biogenetic relations of plant products as deduced from the recognizable architectural components of the molecules have been consistent guides in my investigations. — Robert Robinson

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters. — Dallas Willard

It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our system is set up to block tax reform. — David Malpass

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. — Ian McEwan

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday. — Martin Parr

Before the eyes shut
this knife shines snow-
bright once more through the inner organs
as using a nuclear bomb to light a cigar
sends lung cancer across the earth
to parting lovers — Xiaobo Liu

But shadows spread, and deepened, and stayed. After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests. — Annie Dillard

Outwardly, I'm the epitome of the consummate professional. Inwardly, I curse him six ways to Sunday. — Siobhan Davis

Maven has miscalculated. He believes enough corpses will make me come back. But I will not. — Victoria Aveyard

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day. — Tony Curtis