Negulescu Portocala Quotes

#1. All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence.

Mitch Albom

#2. Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Joseph Joubert

#3. I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.

Nick Offerman

#4. Where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty.

Anonymous

#5. You don't know who a person is until you see how he acts when given unexpected power. He hasn't rehearsed for the part. So what you see is what he is.

Orson Scott Card

#6. As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

Emmanuel Jal

#7. The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

Benjamin Disraeli

#9. Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy.

Barbara Delinsky

#10. After leaving Egypt, Moses and his people endured a forty-year commute, starting with a truly epic crossing of the Red Sea (which made getting through the Lincoln Tunnel at rush hour seem like traipsing across a country bridge in a sundress on a spring afternoon).

BikeSnobNYC

#11. My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

Miranda Hart