Portugee Quotes & Sayings

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew. — Ashton Kutcher

The despairing are always being urged to abstain from selfishness, to think of others first. This seems unfair. Why load them with responsibility for the welfare of others, when their own already weighs them down? — Julian Barnes

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding. — Ralph Nader

The whirlwind of life
It was true. Sometimes life was like that, a wonderful whirlwind that fills us with joy, like a ride on a merry-go-round when we are children. A whirlwind of love and drunkenness when you sleep in someones arms, in a tiny bed, getting up for breakfast at midday because you've spent the morning making love. But sometimes a whirlwind destroys things, like a violent typhoon that tries to drag us down, when we have been caught by the storm, when we realize that we have to face the tempest alone. And we are afraid. — Guillaume Musso

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese. — H.L. Mencken

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it. — Francis Bacon

This isn't a letter, it's a gift. — David Nicholls

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You've got the sexiest voice. You make everything you say sound like it tastes good coming out of your mouth. — Megan Hart

Be wary of listening to stories secondhand. — Tim Allen

Pepper it was that brought Vasco da Gama's tall ships across the ocean, from Lisbon's Tower of Belem to the Malabar Coast: first to Calicut and later, for its lagoony harbour, to Cochin. English and French sailed in the wake of that first-arrived Portugee, so that in the period called Discovery-of-India - but how could we be discovered when we were not
covered before? - we were 'not so much sub-continent as sub-condiment', as my distinguished mother had it. — Salman Rushdie