Quadros Quotes

#1. I put on a show of confidence as often as I could, but inside, I was a befuddled mess. I secretly wished my mother would live forever. - Merrick Delmar

Heidi Peltier

#2. I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

Stefanie Scott

#3. I really believe if I'm the best person for the role, I'll be hired. That's always been my experience.

Tom Hulce

#4. From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.

Janio Quadros

#5. There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

Pamela Anderson

#6. If there's something you want to say, say it. I'm not a mind reader.

Maya Banks

#7. And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#8. While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available, even in the most remote regions of the country.

Vint Cerf

#9. The initial wealth of a group and its time of arrival are obviously important, as many wealthy "old families " show, but the Jews arrived late and penniless in the nineteenth century and are now more affluent than any other ethnic group.

Thomas Sowell

#10. Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

Janio Quadros

#11. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Hermann Hesse

#12. How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?

Janio Quadros

#13. Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

Ron Rash

#14. Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)

Sherman Alexie