Jose Saramago Quotes

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Jose Saramago

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• Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Together
  • Marriage
  • Problems

• I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Care
  • Chicago

• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Happens

• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Important
  • America

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • You
  • Deep

• Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • She
  • Earth
  • Professional

• I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Body
  • Weird

• We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Relationship
  • Only
  • Threaten

• If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Risk
  • Mistakes

• In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Different
  • Accept

• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Like
  • inspirational
  • Kiss

• I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Work
  • Like

• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Me

• I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • School
  • Film
  • New York

• The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Great
  • Real
  • History

• When an illegal vote is cast for president, that illegal vote is also cast for a city councilman.

  

  Chris Collins
  • City

• There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fool

• I just don't feel that we've traveled very far in the realm of social equality. There just seems to be a little bit of unrest. And sometimes I think that happens when you really feel like something's about to change. Right before the moment of lift off, sometimes things feel a little bit unhinged, and that's what it feels like to me right now, both as a woman and just as a human on the planet as an American woman in America. I feel like we're on the precipice of change. I feel a little nervous.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Sometimes

• When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.

  

  Andrae Crouch
  • Music
  • She
  • Mother

• In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

  

  Jose Saramago