Teresinha Do Menino Quotes & Sayings

I'm not slimming down for anyone and losing my figure. — Estelle

Interviewer (Louise Tucker): What did you want to be when you grew up? Have you always wanted to be a writer?
IllumBerg: When I was a child I was busy being a child. [...] — Natasha Illum Berg

A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative, to be loving, to be blissful, without comparing yourself to others. It will not teach you that you can be happy only when you are the first - that is sheer nonsense. You can't be happy just by being first, and in trying to be first you go through such misery that by the time you become the first you are habituated to misery. — Anonymous

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs. — Sam Harris

Long after all the chocolates were eaten, and the cousins had gone, we kept the chocolate-box in the linen-drawer in the dining-room sideboard, waiting for some ceremonial use that never presented itself. It was still full of the empty chocolate cups of dark, fluted paper. In the wintertime I would sometimes go into the cold dining room and sniff at the cups, inhaling their smell of artifice and luxury; I would read again the descriptions on the map provided on the inside of the box-top: hazelnut, creamy nougat, Turkish delight, golden toffee, peppermint cream. — Alice Munro

Never forget to stop and drink the beauty of roses to get drunk for a few moments of life. — Debasish Mridha

Feeling guilty's no reason for staying, or going. — Christopher Isherwood

Trust your creativity. — Jeanette Winterson

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business. — Satya Nadella

If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer. — Dan Webster

A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, [Cormac] McCarthy would much rather orate than confide. — Richard B. Woodward

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. — Stanislav Grof

Now the movie stars beg people to follow their Zing feeds. They send pleading messages asking everyone to smile at them. And holy fuck, the mailing lists! Everyone's a junk mailer. You know how I spend an hour every day? Thinking of ways to unsubscribe to mailing lists without hurting anyone's feelings. There's this new neediness - it pervades everything. — Dave Eggers

As soon as I stopped trying to exploit my literary skills to advance my career or enhance my reputation, I found that I was opening myself to the text, could lose myself to the beauty of the words and in the wisdom of the writer. It was a kind of ekstasis, an ecstasy that was not an exotic, tranced state of consciousness but, in the literal sense of the word, a going beyond self. — Karen Armstrong

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson. — Stephen Ambrose