Jos C3 A9 Saramago Quotes

#1. Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I've heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad.

Gary Krist

#2. Money is a symptom of poverty, after all, and Manfred never has to pay for anything.

Charles Stross

#3. He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

Frances Osborne

#4. I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

Christoph Waltz

#5. Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

Tyler Cowen

#6. I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.

Ed Westwick

#7. I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

John Catsimatidis

#8. I have no words for that feeling, nor had I ever had it before, which comes from the knowledge that one is far away from all humanity, alone in a thousand square miles. We rode in silence, for speech would have been absurd. It seemed the very summit of the world.

Oliver Sacks

#9. [ ... ]certainly not one of them would have known what to reply if they had been asked, Why are you holding hands as you go, it simply came about, there are gestures for which we cannot always find an easy explanation, sometimes not even a difficult one can be found.

Jose Saramago

#10. The mosquitoes were a formidable enemy, coming in thick clouds so dense as to be almost palpable, obscuring each man's vision of those near him. The insects buzzed and whined around them, clinging to every part of their bodies, getting into ears and nose and mouth.

Michael Crichton

#11. They were brilliant, widely read, incisive, and effortlessly effective analysts and programmers. Which is another reason why, ultimately, so many people died.

Charles Stross

#12. The ultimate purpose of life is to live it with profound love, joy, and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#13. When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.

Antonio Porchia

#14. A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

John Dufresne

#15. Change happens, when we replace fear with hope.

Sukant Ratnakar

#16. I think I like 'mundane' better than 'bloodsucker,'" Simon muttered.
"With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname."
-Simon and Clary, pg.234-

Cassandra Clare