Portugueses No Mundo Quotes & Sayings

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories? — Virginia Woolf

Or maybe it was already too late; you only get one first love. She was mine, but I had not been hers. She was only going to look for some echo of it, and if I had made the right noises, that echo might have been me for a while. — Olivia Sudjic

80% of the output comes from 20% of the input. — Brian Cagneey

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work. — Walt Whitman

E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient. — Alan Cooper

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends. — Samuel Hoffenstein

What? Sammy Ray yelled back. It was like the Smith family had only one volume level. — Shelly Laurenston

Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion. — Roberto Cavalli

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer ... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician — C.S. Lewis

New Rule: Let the Pope be Pope. An animal-rights group in Italy has asked Pope Benedict to give up his fur-trimmed cape and hat. To which the Pope replied, "Don't be hatin' on my cape, bitch." Sorry, but Popes are the original divas, they invented bling, they've been wearing outlandish outfits for a thousand years
almost as long as Elton John. The clothes, the jewels, the fancy palace ... Those aren't just symbols of the Papacy, they are the Papacy. The day the Pope shows up on the balcony in a pair of jeans and polo shirt is the day a billion Catholics go, "What the hell were we thinking? — Bill Maher

Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober. — Michel De Montaigne

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences. — Arthur Seyss-Inquart

The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing. — Richard Bachman

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing. — David Duchovny

There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind. — Vilayat Inayat Khan