Portentosamente Quotes & Sayings

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother. — Jeff Bridges

I'll tell you one thing I know for sure," he'd said. "You only have one life. Whatever you decide to do, you should try and be happy. Don't be afraid to take risks. — Dalia Jurgensen

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area. — Tyra Banks

Do not be misled by expert bravado or by an expert's own sense of how he or she is doing. Evidence is a much better guide than an impressive self-presentation. — Cass R. Sunstein

The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail. — Jason Versey

Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard. — Anonymous

The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours. — Keith Richards

It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves. — Little Richard

It wasn't going to be hard ... it was going to be impossible. It wouldn't deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn't scare me as much as it used to. — Jasper Fforde

One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to sell 'Memento,' and he just couldn't. — Drew Daywalt

'Unforgiven,' I think, is the best Western ever. — Michael Biehn

But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader ... I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce. — W. Somerset Maugham

There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall.
Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on. — Ursula K. Le Guin