Elvas's Quotes

#1. The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas's desire to be alone, and one must not forget that, strange as it may seem, some men can spend their entire life alone and enjoy solitude, especially if it is raining and their crust is hard.

Jose Saramago

#2. You can't take everything that is offered to you. I pass on a lot of stuff, because I truly believe that I will shine better if I could do it 200 percent rather than do it 80 percent and make it so-so.

J. B. Smoove

#3. You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.

Nick Offerman

#4. According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

Lawrence O'Donnell

#5. A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

David McCord

#6. Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

Mark Twain

#7. Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#8. Only supreme in misery!

John Milton

#9. Giving is true loving.

Charles Spurgeon