Lusophone Quotes & Sayings

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. — Erica Jong

Refuse to feel like a foreigner on your own planet. The country you live in is simply another physical location of your own home. — Ben Tolosa

Saudade is presented as the key feeling of the Portuguese soul. The word comes from the Latin plural solitates, "solitudes," but its derivation was influenced by the idea and sonority of the Latin salvus, "in good health," "safe." A long tradition that goes back to the origins of Lusophone language, to the thirteenth-century cantiga d'amigo, has repeatedly explored, in literature and philosophy, the special feeling of a people that has always looked beyond its transatlantic horizons. Drawn from a genuine suffering of the soul, saudade became, for philosophical speculation, particularly suitable for expressing the relationship of the human condition to temporality, finitude, and the infinite. — Barbara Cassin

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations. — Robert Cormier

The shock of standing again under the wide pale sky, completely exposed. This must be what the oyster feels when the lemon juice falls. — Edward St. Aubyn

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are. — Richard L. Evans

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination. — Bill Rancic

I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely? — Dolly Parton

Dakota pulled a lollipop out of his pocket before quickly unwrapping it and popping it into his mouth.
What kind of vampire sucks on human candy? — Sara Humphreys

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love. — Pope John Paul II

I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM. — Susan Hill

Be phenomenal or be forgotten! — Eric Thomas

I don't support getting rid of Social Security. — Ken Buck