Maravilhosa Quotes & Sayings

What do you think?" he asked Hermione.
"Oh, Harry," she said wearily, "it's a pile of utter rubbish. This can't be what the sign really means. This must just be his weird take on it. What a waste of time."
"I s'pose this is the man who brought us Crumple-Horned Snorkacks," said Ron. — J.K. Rowling

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director. — Bong Joon-ho

You really have got lots of issues! Yeah, of 'What Car Magazine'! — Steve Coogan

I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times. — Jeff Kinney

My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn. — Toni Trucks

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it! — Edwin Balmer

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place. — Karen Russell

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. — David Nicholls

That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be. — John Updike

I sighed. What was the use? How could I compete with thousands of free samples? This street fair was supposed to be my way to attract more customers, to get the word out that I had the best baked goods in town, and I couldn't even get anyone to stop and try them. "Hey there," a kind voice called — Stacey Alabaster

Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor. — Alex Kendrick

People have a basic desire to feel good about themselves, and we therefore have a tendency to be unconsciously biased in favor of traits similiar to our won, even such seemingly meaningless traits as our names. Scientists have even identified a discrete area of the brain, called the dorsal striatum, as the structure that mediates much of this bias. — Leonard Mlodinow

The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise. — Stephen Hawking

The gentle maid, whose hapless tale,
these melancholy pages speak;
say, gracious lady, shall she fail
To draw the tear a down from thy cheek? — Horace Walpole

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. — Martin Luther King Jr.