Penedo Borges Quotes & Sayings

Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need. — Stephen Richards

I don't know what I'd like to do. That's what hurts the most. That's why I can't quit the job. I really don't know what talents I may have. And I don't know where to go to find out. I've been fostered so long by school and didn't have time to think about it. My father's in watch repair. That's always interested me, working with my hands, and independent. I don't think I'd mind going back and learning something, taking a piece of furniture and refinishing it. The type of thing where you know what you're doing and you can create and you can fix something to make it function. At the switchboard you don't do much of anything. — Studs Terkel

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out. — William Shakespeare

Honestly, she sometimes wondered if there was something a bit wrong with her for being able to cry so easily. — Sarah J. Maas

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. — Robert A. Heinlein

At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded. — Gail Collins

There is no ending to this story because, as I've realised, stories don't have endings, only beginnings. — Shirley Marr

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance. — Ben Kingsley

He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out. — Karen Joy Fowler

It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Stop.
Stop time.
Stop the world.
Stop everything for the moment he crosses the room and pulls me into his arms and pins me against the wall and I'm spinning and standing and not even breathing but I'm alive so very very alive. — Tahereh Mafi