Hermeto Pascoal Quotes

#1. You know you're in a tough place in your life when you decide now's a good time to start Moby Dick.

Ben Monopoli

#2. I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.

Jonathan Galassi

#3. He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that you can see their behinds, that's what he likes, especially when they've got big round ones. That's Hitler's sex life. What a man.

Ernst Rohm

#4. How long before the shouting starts? How long before the tears and the accusations and the pain? That specific stone n the stomach pain when you lose something you haven't got round to valuing? Why is the measure of love loss?

Jeanette Winterson

#5. I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Fred Saberhagen

#6. The woman's essence has always been the most powerful force
much like nature has always been Satan's church.
Quote from the Vampire exhibit at Hallands Kulturhistoriska museum 2012

Czon

#7. I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

Courtney Milan

#8. She hadn't thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in her blood. But she hadn't counted on despair. Somehow despair always made room for itself.

Nora Roberts

#9. It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common.

Thomas Merton

#10. Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet ... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none.

Danny Gatton

#11. The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.

Jane Hirshfield

#12. In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

Gunnar Myrdal

#13. I aggressively run into things, back up into things, have no depth perception, often forget which buttons and knobs do what, and am easily distracted. But enough about my sex life! Back to my driving skills!

Tyler Oakley

#14. Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.

Rose Philippine Duchesne