Maria Silvia Bastos Quotes & Sayings

I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime. — Isabella L. Bird

Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful. — George Lois

I'm the first person in my family to go to college. — Jessica Chastain

We grasp because God does. We create, and fall short, because God does. We continue creating because we fell short, and fall short again, because God does. Because one act of creation, one attempt at capture, is only one breath and we must breathe again. And again. And again. Here we stand (and sit and sleep), the many images of the Imager, and we can do no other. — N.D. Wilson

If you want to be holy, if you seek meaning in your life, start looking into your own life and attacking your pride in all of its many forms. God will give you extraordinary light and the ultimate reward of holiness. For your holiness relies not on what you do, but on what you allow God to do through you. Have courage. God will perfect you. — Mother Angelica

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. — Samuel Butler

I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality. — Don Marquis

Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function. — Craig Venter

You can't live in nostalgia-land. — Kenneth Branagh

There are lots of things we're able to do, but I'd like to land on the one thing I was MADE to do. — Bob Goff

What I carry in my backpack down to the river, I carry not knowing that in less than an hour Thomas Broughton will be dead. That is not a knowledge I carry yet, but I will carry it soon - the knowledge of my darkest self - and I will carry it forever. — Jenny Hubbard

The aphorism is already a shadow of itself. — Don Paterson

Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds ... — Leigh Hunt