Carlos Jobim Quotes

#1. There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

Harry Connick Jr.

#2. The songs he chose reflected that same withdrawn, private man, but this man had the gift of expressing his inner soulscape through the medium of some of the 20th century's finest songwriters, from Rodgers and Hart to Antonio Carlos Jobim to Jimmy Webb, and as always, making those songs his own.

Neil Peart

#3. Surgery can help to remove a damaged organ but only meditation and quiet time can remove emotions like anger and fear to calm and soothe a disturbed mind

Teresa Spelman

#4. If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Al Roker

#5. Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

Joan Allen

#6. My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#7. MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE WALL ... Hey, wait a minute!" some of you may be saying about now. "Wait a minute, wait a minute! Where's Dany and the dragons? Where's Tyrion? We hardly saw Jon Snow. That can't be all of it. ... " Well, no. There's more to come.

George R R Martin

#8. It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

Antonio Carlos Jobim

#9. If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

John Oates

#10. What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

Antonio Carlos Jobim

#11. Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.

Zig Ziglar

#12. In every enterprise consider where you would come out.

Publilius Syrus

#13. By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

Lin Yutang

#14. Some of us aim at being good
I prefer to aim at being better

Celso Cukierkorn

#15. Codependents appear to be depended upon, but they are dependent.

Melody Beattie

#16. We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

Pascal Mercier

#17. I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

Antonio Carlos Jobim