Portuguese Literature Quotes

#1. Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

Jeanine Basinger

#2. May my silences become more accurate.

Theodore Roethke

#3. I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

David Edwards

#4. I am convinced I was once a tree, this is why I love them so.

Raul Brandao

#5. Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

E. M. Forster

#6. I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children!

Donald Trump

#7. 'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?'

Barry Ritholtz

#8. It is one of life's great ironies that most people's only connection to success is their attachment to the pain of not having achieved it.

Stephen Smoke

#9. The Cause they had thought could never fall had fallen forever.

Margaret Mitchell

#10. Love has no charm
when Love is swept to earth:
you'd make a lop-winged god,
frozen and contrite,
of god up-darting,
winged for passionate flight.

Hilda Doolittle

#11. I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college, though, they sent me my draft notice, stuck me in officers training, and I ended up on the continent for twelve years. My life went by like a dream.

Haruki Murakami

#12. Where there is little risk, there is little reward.

Evel Knievel

#13. Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

Mignon McLaughlin

#14. Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.

John Leguizamo

#15. As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

Ezra Cornell

#16. Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the morning feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before. Lucy: I'll just say we were out of town and I didn't have time to write anything.

Charles M. Schulz