Jobim Songs Quotes & Sayings

I worked in a schizophrenic home when I was an undergrad. You learned to be jaded to the crazy things they would say to you, but there was one man that I always gave crazy respect to, even though he would say the exact same thing to me every single day. — Matt De La Pena

Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. — John Dryden

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy. — Curtis Bill Pepper

The songs he chose reflected that same withdrawn, private man, but this man had the gift of expressing his inner soulscape through the medium of some of the 20th century's finest songwriters, from Rodgers and Hart to Antonio Carlos Jobim to Jimmy Webb, and as always, making those songs his own. — Neil Peart

I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest. — Antonio Carlos Jobim

I was a new person. A new Aurora. I was Aurora of Itchikan City-State. — Binta Userkaf

It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view.
When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before.
Its never too late to take a moment to look. — Sharon Salzberg

Perhaps everyone possessed a darker self kept at bay by circumstance. — Mark Haddon

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity. — Rachel Cusk

Love is an act of courage. — Paulo Freire

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy. — Brett Ratner

People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession - it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It's not good for the economy. — Peter Hargreaves

In learning about the myths and legends of old, we learn something of ourselves. Stories, Maisie, are never just stories. They contain fundamental truths about the human condition. — Jacqueline Winspear

Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself! — Gabriel Mann

Real love lasts years. It causes pain, and endures through it. — N.K. Jemisin

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more. — Anna Benson