Soneira Campos Quotes & Sayings

No 'Middlemarch' for me," said Miss Barbara, with a wave of her hand. "I am too old for that. That means I've read it, my dear - the way an experienced reader like me can read a thing - in the air, in the newspapers, in the way everybody talks. No, that's not like going into a new neighborhood - that is getting to the secrets of the machinery, and seeing how everything, come the time, will run down, some to ill and harm, but all to downfall, commonplace, and prosiness. I have but little pleasure in that. And it's pleasure I want at my time of life. I'm too old to be instructed. If I have not learned my lesson by this time, the more shame to me, my dear." "But, Miss Barbara, you don't want only to be amused. Oh no: to have your heart touched, sometimes wrung even - to be so sorry, so anxious that you would like to interfere - to follow on and on to the last moment through all their troubles, still hoping that things will take a good turn." — Mrs. Oliphant

Your rewards in life are determined by the kinds of problems you are willing to solve for someone. — Mike Murdock

We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we understand the word cyber is used as a euphemism for the internet, because the American public would not be excited to hear that we're doing internet warfare campaigns, internet espionage campaigns, because we realize that we ourselves are impacted by it. — Edward Snowden

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse. — Laura Riding

His slow smile might haved lured angels from heaven, flocking noisily, arms outstretched,happy to burn for him. — Meredith Duran

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time. — Aileen Wuornos

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way. — Dave Allen

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment. — Willie Aames

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State. — Brian Higgins

Rock and roll is catching on all over ... France ... England ... They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo. — Bob Hope

Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007. — Cassandra Page

People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.
Above all
we were wet. — Frank McCourt

Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock. — Jolene Blalock

I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret. — Kate Messner

A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as indecent ... The text is one of the components of an artistic work, albeit an extremely important component ... But the artistic effect as a whole arises from comparisons of the text with a complex set of ontological and ideological esthetic ideas. — Yuri Lotman