Tergiversar Portugues Quotes & Sayings

It had been a long while since I'd watched any television, and things had only gotten weirder. Beauty pageants for infants; ruddy men in trucker caps fighting over abandoned storage lockers; public shamings of compulsive hoarders and pre-diabetics; affluent suburban women made up like transvestite hookers, competing with each other in feats of coarseness and cruelty; barely literate pregnant teens with tattoos, unfocused eyes, and futures like wrecked cars; apoplectic crypto-fascists spitting bile and paranoia; a carnival midway of weight loss devices, hair growth creams, erectile dysfunction potions, and pottery from which herbs grew like green hair. It was like the day room of a surrealist mental hospital, or any big city ER on a summer Saturday night. — Peter Spiegelman

The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you. — Gavin O'Connor

I ran out the door but it was to late..... i felt a sharp pain in my back as i heard the gun shoot — Andy Lane

Of all the lists I've made of goals, and all the visions I've had, it never before occurred to me that I could be this specific, that I could aspire to a goal actually measurable in inches. I wonder if this is how successful people do it. I wonder if the difference between success and failure could more accurately be described in the waist sizes for jeans. — Lauren Graham

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi. — Tom Hayden

I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do. — Mallory Ortberg

But it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music. — Tom Waits

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think. — Tom Ford

Darkness and light are inextricably bound together. — Pat Schneider