Viramos Massinha Quotes

#1. When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

Eva Hoffman

#2. Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

Samuel Johnson

#3. To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).

Leopold Von Ranke

#4. Sometimes our future is
dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

Wallace D. Wattles

#6. The world and circumstances might tear us away from those we love, but I will always have faith that love is possible.

Ophelia Bell

#7. I am continuing to explore a run in the Senate from Connecticut, absolutely exploring it. In fact, I would say exploring it intensely.

Lawrence Kudlow

#8. It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#9. Mates are a waste of fucking time. They are always ready to drag you down tae their level of social, sexual and intellectual mediocrity.

Irvine Welsh

#10. Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier
mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay.
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

David Bowie

#11. Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

Christopher McQuarrie

#12. I aspire to be of the leisure class, therefore, I go to class. Because I am of the working class, needs must, I teach class, where it is to be learned, I have no class.

M. Alexander Shipley

#13. A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Herman Melville

#14. Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.

David Z. Hirsch

#15. passed through her into the wall, he pissed himself.

Kresley Cole