#Want Quotes
“Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.”
“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.”
“We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.”
“It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.”
“In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.”
“There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and eddies and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic.”
“Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.”
“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
Benjamin Moser Writer
Carlos Drummond de Andrade Poet
Fernando Pessoa Poet
Helene Cixous Professor
Jorge Amado Film writer
Machado de Assis Novelist
Mario Quintana Writer
Vinicius de Moraes Poet
Virginia Woolf Writer
