Transportando Quotes & Sayings

I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art, experiencing things that resonate with what our lives are about. I think people really want to know ... want to share, want to have the stimulus to think and care about the way they live their lives, the way they relate to other people, their aspirations, their hopes, et cetera. — Mike Leigh

In some countries, pertaining to the opposition qualifies you as official enemy of the state and by that designation the state is in its right to defend itself — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Esme slowly turned the picture over, her hands beginning to tremble again. Inscribed across the back of the photograph, in a woman's elegant script, were two words. The ink might have faded, but the sentiment would surely endure forever.
Dix's strong, warm arms went around her. He rested his cheek against hers as they whispered in unison,"My Darling". — Teresa Medeiros

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. — Georg Solti

Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers. — Thomas Pynchon

and a barge that sailed into the banqueting-hall with his week's washing, just as he was giving a dinner-party; and he was — Kenneth Grahame

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice. — Amy Klobuchar

You can't have bravery without fear — Rhianna Pratchett

To be thoroughly conversant with Man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair — Edgar Allan Poe

This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. — Anonymous

Carl Hirsch didn't do holiday parties. At least, not correctly. All the so-called people, wind streaming from their faces. Fleshy machines spewing pollution, fucking up the environment. If he squinted, the celebrating bodies of his co-workers very nearly blistered into molecules, shining with color. Too often the whole of it - people, places, and things - looked to scatter. Everyone on the verge of turning to soup. So what if there was no precedent for a full-scale human melt, bodies reduced to liquid pouring from a window? You could still worry about it. Sometimes you had to. Tonight's party was in one of those long, skinny city apartments you're supposed to verbally fellate with praise. It was like walking into a tiny, dismal doghouse, a real doghouse, — Anonymous

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia. — Shakira

The clock ticks. The two hands are convoys marching through a desert. The black bars on the clock face are green oases. The long hand has marched ahead to find water. The other, painfully stumbles among hot stones in the desert. It will die in the desert. — Virginia Woolf

Writing is like masturbating when you have just masturbated. It's not fun. But it has to be done, or else people would not have anything to read while they sit on the toilet. — Ed Rosenthal

It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They never remembered having seen her. She did not like to seem (even to herself) so much more caught up in the importance of others when they cared so little for her. — Elizabeth Taylor