Venha Nos Quotes

#1. They were all at the First Nome, in Egypt, for a weeklong training session on controlling cheese demons (yes, they're a real thing; believe me, you don't want to know), so I was on my

Rick Riordan

#2. Get it? Gender is a country, a field of signifying roses you can walk through, or wear tucked behind your ear.

Eventually the flower wilts & you can pick another, or burn the field, or turn & run back across the tracks.

(from "Essay on the Theory of Motion")

Cameron Awkward-Rich

#3. My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

Aaron Levie

#4. I have never intimidated the masses ... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

Zhu Rongji

#5. I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?

Edward Norton

#6. The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages ...

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.

Ice-T

#8. The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.

Jeremy Denk

#9. The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. My films are about embarrassment.

Alan Bennett

#11. You must be yielded to the Word of God. The Word will work out love in our hearts, and when practical love is in our hearts, there is no room to boast about ourselves. We see ourselves as nothing when we get lost in this divine love.

Smith Wigglesworth