"If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice."

“Well, you won't unless you come to lunch with me," Cal said. "I'm holding it for ransom. There's a gun to its heel right now." "I have lunch at my desk," Min began, and thought,Oh, for crying out loud, could I beany more pathetic ? "Emilio is experimenting with a lunch menu. He needs you. I need you.”

“Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.”

“Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.”

“The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory.”

“We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.”

“I only believe in those who can still blush.”

Source : "Asfalto Selvagem: Engraçadinha, seus amores e seus pecados" by Nelson Rodrigues, Ruy Castro - Published by Companhia das Letras, (p. 175), 1994.

“I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.”

Source : "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

“It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.”