Mostrengo Fernando Quotes

#1. A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Aldous Huxley

#2. Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Walter Lippmann

#3. Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Parker J. Palmer

#4. [Mrs. Ferrars] was not a woman of many words: for, unlike people in general, she proprtioned them to the number of her ideas.

Jane Austen

#5. Do I even know how to be real?

Simone Elkeles

#6. [T]he clouds the miller saw as bags of flour, the draper as unironed calico, the confectioner as baked meringue, old Katina the spinster as a bridal veil and Madame Nana as an extension of her climbing rose, while Savvas admired them fulsomely as just clouds.

Ioanna Karystiani

#7. I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

Jose Gonzalez

#8. Fold within fold, the beloved
drowns in its own being. This world
is drenched with that drowning.

Coleman Barks

#9. It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

David Plotz

#10. Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.

Alannah Myles

#11. I've been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I'm always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.

Jose Andres

#12. It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Amedeo Modigliani

#13. The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

Scott Adams

#14. The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

William Hazlitt