Florbela Espanca Quotes

#1. Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

John Updike

#2. No one, wise Kublai, knows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it.

Italo Calvino

#3. The truth is, all of life is a grand, blooming ambiguity.

James Hollis

#4. So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

Lord Byron

#5. I love to sing. Seriously, in my past life I was Miley Cyrus or something. I swear I'm a singer, but I know I'm not. If I could sing, I would be the happiest person on Earth.

Sloane Stephens

#6. I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That's my favorite thing.

Brian Greene

#7. Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

Michael O'Leary

#8. Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,
overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way
to get from here to there.

Elizabeth Alexander

#9. An advertising man understands even more viscerally than an academic that the world is made of discourse, Pescecane argued; he understands in his bones that true power resides in the infinite manipulability of signs.

James Hynes

#10. I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

Tom Petty

#11. The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in God's mind, then what chance of it remaining in those of mortal men?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#12. Jules: For one, you have a terrifying older brother.
Livvy: I do not have a terryfying older brother.
Jules: That's true. You have two.

Cassandra Clare