Lisbonense Proprietarios Quotes & Sayings

I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won. — Harry Golombek

Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame. — Sydney Marie Hughes

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio. — Doug Liman

I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.' — Tananarive Due

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. — Howard Mumford Jones

I don't want anything. I simply don't want. — Francisco X Stork

The forest, the virgin forest, the life of a woodcutter - that has always been my ideal. — Thomas Bernhard

What man knows is little enough and most of his general concepts in every field are vitiated by the artificial concepts he has created to cover his ignorance. These concepts must be destroyed. One tool exists that can accomplish this destruction, and this tool is in your hands. It is simply curiosity - the instinct to ask and to question. It should be kept sharp and used without mercy. — Charles H. Hapgood