Rodrigues Quotes & Sayings

Any boy seems, nowadays, a tried and wicked 47 years old dwarf. — Nelson Rodrigues

Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts — Jose Rodrigues Migueis

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy. — Nelson Rodrigues

Only cynicism redeems a wedding. It takes a lot of cynicism for a couple to reach silver wedding. — Nelson Rodrigues

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity. — Nelson Rodrigues

He raised his hands and, guided by a redeeming impulse of truth-like a conductor leading his orchestra in a grand symphony-finally set fingers to keyboard and let the melody of his story dance across the screen — Jose Rodrigues Dos Santos

In life, it take strides forward, but you always take a few steps back. But in the end, if you take more steps forward than backward, you're making progress. — Carmen Rodrigues

hidden in this huge city beats in unison the heart of a whole people seeking to find their route to a better future. — Dulce Rodrigues

The sunrise was the most amazing part of the day. The quiet of the block seemed even more silent when I watched the light make its way effortlessly into the world. Its serenity bathed itself in the rose colored light above bleeding into the sky. The road was vulnerable. The pink and the orange seeped onto the street and lit up my path, just for me. I saw it in front of my feet and it pulled me forward, my footsteps hitting the gravel. I wanted to run into it, to dive feet first and plunge into the harmony of my safe haven. It serenaded me into a calm sense of security. A calm idea that everything was just the way it was supposed to, and everything else, would always get better. Siempre mejorando. — Adriana Rodrigues

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures. — Nelson Rodrigues

I pound the counter. "One time! A snake peed on me one time!" "That's all it takes, Snake Piss!" Saul shouts from the back. "That's all it takes," Dane says, drumming on the counter and turning to the hipsters as they approach to order. — Daniel Rodrigues-Martin

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement. — Nelson Rodrigues

Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones. — Nelson Rodrigues

The keyhole is my lens as a writer. — Nelson Rodrigues

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts. — Nelson Rodrigues

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist. — Nelson Rodrigues

You said, "Ellie, this is the truth, everybody leaves. Everybody." I was just seven, and when I reached for you, you were death and absence and missing take you. You were where bad husbands disappear to. And you were whispering. "Just ask them. — Carmen Rodrigues

No matter what we have heard or read about a country, it is our own feeling that counts. — Dulce Rodrigues

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil. — Nelson Rodrigues

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way. — Nelson Rodrigues

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child. — Nelson Rodrigues

If life turns her back on you, grab her ass. — Nelson Rodrigues

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture. — Nelson Rodrigues

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us. — Nelson Rodrigues

Perverted is any ordinary person caught in the act. — Nelson Rodrigues

The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on. — Nelson Rodrigues

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous! — Nelson Rodrigues

Mattie loves to read. Was born to read. I love to listen to Mattie read. The way her voice rises two octaves above everyone else's. The way the words collide-an endless train of sounds that doesn't require breath. — Carmen Rodrigues

the death of that ape. She was wearing a light blue dress — Sergio Rodrigues

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal. — Nelson Rodrigues

His worst nightmare had become real; life was no more than a fragile breath, a fleeting instant od light in the eternal darkness of time — Jose Rodrigues Dos Santos

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. — Nelson Rodrigues

Love is impossible without bite marks. — Nelson Rodrigues

Only the prophets see the obvious. — Nelson Rodrigues

Life is hard, but it's also crazy-beautiful. Fight for your best life. You deserve it. — Carmen Rodrigues

Every shy person is a potential sex offender. — Nelson Rodrigues

Saturday is an illusion. — Nelson Rodrigues

If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street. — Nelson Rodrigues

Friendships are the most important thing you can have in your life. Sometimes they have their ups and downs. Sometimes it's your fault and sometimes it's not. But the key to handling those ups and downs is to remember that good friends will always find their way back to each other. — Carmen Rodrigues

To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day. — Nelson Rodrigues

I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel. — Nelson Rodrigues

Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love. — Nelson Rodrigues

Any love is condemned to suffer a murderous persecution. We are impotent of feeling and do not forgive other people's love. So don't let anyone know that you love. — Nelson Rodrigues

A book is like a trip to a world of imagination and creativity, and those who don't read will for ever stay in the same place. — Dulce Rodrigues

And where does that minute go, that minute that separates life from death? I want those sixty seconds back. — Carmen Rodrigues

They're just clothes,' she remembered writing down in the leafy, thin pages of her journal. 'And the warmth of them no longer comforts you nor belongs to you. They're just fabric without an owner. A familiarity that has faded and an attachment that no longer has a name, just a brand mark stitched into the seams.' She remembered her hand flowing quickly and purposefully across the page as her eyes shifted from the journal to the sweater to the journal again.
'And when I slip them over my head. I smell not your fragrance and feel no longer the emptiness you left behind. I see me in a mirror, with a sweater on. And I look as radiant and beautiful, and broken, and whole, and relentlessly happy as you left me. — Adriana Rodrigues

I only believe in those who can still blush. — Nelson Rodrigues

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us. — Nelson Rodrigues

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball. — Nelson Rodrigues

Money buys everything, even true love. — Nelson Rodrigues

Unanimity is always stupid. — Nelson Rodrigues

Husbands shouldn't be the last to know. Husbands should never know! — Nelson Rodrigues

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil. — Nelson Rodrigues

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ. — Nelson Rodrigues