Top 25 Quotes About Portuguese Language
#3. I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
Tanith Lee
#4. Spanish - how shall I say this? - is like
Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.
Sol Luckman
#5. Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
Rumi
#8. We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#9. Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
Clarence Nash
#10. I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.
Deborah Smith
#11. For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
Byron Katie
#12. I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.
Paulo Freire
#13. She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.
Jodi Picoult
#14. If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
Byron Katie
#15. What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.
Ruth Park
#16. It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.
Dominic Cooper
#17. The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.
Pedro Passos Coelho
#18. You're sleeping with someone for a Promise. I slept with Anna because I wanted to at the time. The fact that your mom died doesn't mean your reasons are better than mine or you're better than Anna.
Jackson Pearce
#19. One day, if I'm very lucky, I'll be a shriveled 100-year old guy with a cane. An old man with a kid's mind, wondering how the hell this could have happened.
Johnny B. Truant
#20. My nation is the Portuguese language,' he declared through Bernardo Soares (Text 259), but he also said: 'I don't write in Portuguese. I write my own self.
Fernando Pessoa
#21. Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.
Christine Baranski
#22. Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?
Kevin Rudd
#23. There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.
H.L. Mencken
#24. Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no
Richard Branson
#25. A Gypsy never parts with her gold, unless she intends to spend it.
Debra Holland