Vilarinho Das Quotes & Sayings

I never put real people into my fiction
I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing utterly subservient slave-people, whose every detail of appearance and behavior I can bend to serve my theme and plot. — Barbara Kingsolver

It was sad and beautiful knowledge that a person cannot be found elsewhere but in his own spirit. — Amy Tan

We need a hit, so here I go. — Joe DiMaggio

In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness — Prentice Mulford

We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds. — Hermann Oberth

She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong. — Michel Faber

Kind of a wuss? Kind of a wuss? Dude, you are, like, the Duke of Wussendorf. The Earl of Wussheim. In fact, wherever wusses meet and mingle, your name is whispered in hushed, reverent tones. — Jordan Sonnenblick

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress. — Odeya Rush

Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it. — Rufus Wainwright

OCD focuses on the negative. I didn't think to myself, My praying will save my grandma. Instead, I thought, If I don't pray, my grandma will die for sure. — J.J. Keeler

A sensible question, as Mrs. Clare, an admirer of logic, though a curious interpreter of it, was driven to admit. — Truman Capote

Just for the record, saying 'The surprise hasn't started yet' while pulling something out of your pants pocket is super creepy."
"Yeah," I heard him say, "I regretted it immediately, but it was too late to switch to something else. — Temple West

From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else's misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn't alone. — Simone Elkeles

We do what we are and we are what we do ... — Abraham Maslow

You can pay a mercenary to fight, you can't pay him to die. — J.D. Rhoades