Jose Saramago Quotes
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.
Quotes to Explore
-
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
-
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
-
It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
-
And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
-
In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
-
We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
-
'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
-
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
-
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
-
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
-
Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
-
Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
-
If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
-
If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
-
I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
-
I like that Barack got that job.
-
In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
-
I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
-
I shot images of everything I could find over the course of a year. I would go all over the world and take pictures. In a day, I could easily take thousands.
-
The revolution begins at home.
-
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.
