Gramacho Quotes

#1. The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.

Vik Muniz

#2. I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.

Vik Muniz

#3. Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.

Vik Muniz

#4. To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.

Seamus Heaney

#5. The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Alberto Korda

#6. The stories, though, they were all mine.

Wendy Jean

#7. I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

Emmy Rossum

#8. Maria!
How can I fit a tender word into bulging ears?

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#9. A classic book is a book which generations of men, driven by various reasons, read with that same initial fervor and that same mysterious loyalty.

Jorge Luis Borges

#10. People will tell me, "Oh, my kid watches your show on their iPad, over and over again until they memorize." And I'm like, "Wow, I was that kid watching other shows. That's the coolest!"

Andy Samberg

#11. The people love him. So how can we condemn him?

Jacob Zuma

#12. The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#13. In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.

Thom Yorke