Engenho Quotes

#1. There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

George Saunders

#2. Their irreligious pride makes them withdraw from you and eclipse your great light from reaching themselves. They can foresee a future eclipse of the sun, but do not perceive their own eclipse in the present.

Augustine Of Hippo

#3. Howie's doctor told him to lose ten pounds, and since Howie's been on a diet he's gained three.

Janet Evanovich

#4. My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

Robert Vaughn

#5. Hey...I missed you?

Lorelei James

#6. All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.

Rachel Kushner

#7. The philosophy I shared ... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

Frank Lowy

#8. I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.

Neil Burger

#9. Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

Agona Apell

#10. Courage is where you find it. Bravery that comes from a bottle
or from book or from a sermon
lacks the full strength and purity of bravery that comes straight from the heart.

Tom Robbins

#11. We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.

John Bonham

#12. The air around us was charged as we stood opposite each other. Healer and destroyer, noon and midnight. We were silently deadlocked.

Michelle Hodkin