Virados Do Avesso Quotes

#1. We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did.

Richard Baker

#2. Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?

John Green

#3. Until they give me opportunity to write about matters that are not-me, the world must go on uninstructed and unreformed, and I can only do my best with the one small subject upon which I am allowed to discourse.

Helen Keller

#4. Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

#5. I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

Camille Paglia

#6. ignorant editors and a smothering patron - produced the sort of dependence that affects,

Zora Neale Hurston

#7. One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Norman Vincent Peale

#8. To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not

Kate DiCamillo

#9. I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud.

Jillian Medoff

#10. I don't know how it is with others, and my feeling is that I cannot be like any other. Any other thinks, and then at once thinks something else. I cannot think something else, I think one thing all my life. God has tormented me all my life.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. There are different ways to die. There's jumping off a roof and there's slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.

Jennifer Niven

#12. Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.

Kirk Curnutt

#13. I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not fully appreciate the change I can affect in the long run. And so I've learned that it's critical to think carefully about the pace of change, and it's something that I've learned the hard way.

Harry West

#14. When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

David E. Kelley