Loucos De Lisboa Quotes & Sayings

Impersonal things that dominate our time and imagination offer extravagant promises of control and knowledge. But they also squeeze all sense of mystery and wonder and reverence out of our lives. — Eugene H. Peterson

The wealth of many centuries had been transmitted into ornament, luxury, pleasure; no more; the abolition of feudal rights had swept away duties as well as privileges; wealth, like an old wine, had let the dregs of greed, even of care and prudence, fall to the bottom of the barrel, leaving only verve and color. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically. — Scott Adsit

This is the sort of thing we should say by the fireside in the winter-time, as we lie on soft couches after a good meal, drinking sweet wine and crunching chickpeas: Of what country are you, and how old are you, good sir? And how old were you when the Mede came? — Herodotus

Thoughts are divine. — Virginia Woolf

It's the effort that shows the way, and if you keep trying, one day the answer will be clear. — Lee Strauss

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

I never carry a gun. With my luck, if i carried a gun I would be hanged ten times a year. — Ernest Hemingway,

When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion. — Barbara W. Tuchman

If the grass is always greener on the other side, invest in a hosepipe. — Tim Rees

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else. — Sachin Tendulkar

I wasn't so interested in merchandising through CD or whatever form. I wasn't really so aggressive about promoting my own work. I had my recordings from the past, but I never thought someone was interested in releasing it. — Yoshi Wada

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? — Hermann Hesse

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems. — Diana Ross

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle. — Barry Eisler

A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout the world, the probability of war drops to zero. The probability of human suffering disappears. Deprivation, poverty, crime - all those things tend to disappear because there's no basis. I'm strictly concerned with the environment that people are raised in and if that environment is altered, so will behaviors be altered. — Jacque Fresco