Sidenius Engenheiro Quotes & Sayings

And never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did. — Jack Kerouac

Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction. — Cesare Borgia

They're taking the hobbits to Isengard! — Legolas

In Echo Park, a girl with a voice was listening, and I sang for her, so that when her day came, she wouldn't be afraid. — C.D. Reiss

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy. — Mark McKinnon

You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree' until someone gave it that name. You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
We have come from God (continued Tolkien), and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming a 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Out myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbor, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Why then do you fear love in particular more than earthly existence in general?" Kafka replied as if from an astral distance: "You write: 'Why be more afraid of love than of other things in life?' And just before that: 'I experienced the intermittently divine for the first time, and more frequently than elsewhere, in love.' If you conjoin these two sentences, it's as if you had said: 'Why not fear every bush in the same way that you fear the burning bush? — Franz Kafka

And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is. — Laura Prepon

There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other side of me that's just a dirty animal. If I don't let that out, I go nuts. — Dave Gahan

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. — Terri Garey

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work. — Jayne Mansfield