Bengala Branca Quotes

#1. When I get a little money I buy books," he confessed to a friend. "If any is left, I buy food and clothes."13

Diana Butler Bass

#2. There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

Kiefer Sutherland

#3. I will go, he said to himself. Before I die I'll see Mars.

Philip K. Dick

#4. I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

Frank Black

#5. In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. The impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience.

Richard Wright

#7. He makes me weak and vulnerable and absolutely perfect in all of my flaws. Like a human.

Sarah Noffke

#8. My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

William Kidd

#9. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.

Mike Krzyzewski

#10. Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.

Charles Stross

#11. I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] I put effects on my voice. Why not? I wrote it. Why not show the talent? Why be scared? That's why I hate certain fans who hate cause it's not like raw hip-hop, like boom bap.

Schoolboy Q

#12. Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. ...this rubbed like a small pebble in a boot. At first it seems like nothing but a nuisance, but eventually it hobbles you.
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Eowyn Ivey

#14. There is always hope.

Katie Clark

#15. Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.

Joe Queenan