Vergilio Ferreira Quotes & Sayings

I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk. — Willie Stargell

Because this is the love I want. This is a good love, a love that could be right. And if I accept it,if I give back to him what is in me to give, I will have purchased him with my soul. My soul, that has been broken and cobbled back together, with some of the pieces not quite fitting right. And though I believe in time healing these things, still, I do not love with lightness... — Danielle Younge-Ullman

There's some sense in not going back. That way, you preserve it. — Fiona McFarlane

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility. — Clement Greenberg

THE ARRIVAL Like a tide it comes in, wave after wave of foliage and fruit, the nurtured and the wild, out of the light to this shore. In its extravagance we shape the strenuous outline of enough. — Wendell Berry

There remained only those rare periods of amorousness which still came to them at times but did not last long. These were islets at which they anchored for a while and then again set out upon that ocean of veiled hostility which showed itself in their aloofness from one another. This aloofness might have grieved Ivan Ilych had he considered that it ought not to exist, but he now regarded the position as normal, and even made it the goal at which he aimed in family life. His — Leo Tolstoy

I realized that the story of even so small a place can never be completely told and can never be finished. It is eternal, always here and now, and going on forever. — Wendell Berry

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us. — Shereen El Feki

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world. — Claire Messud

I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic. — Mary Frann