Fernando Pessoa Quotes

These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place

Fernando Pessoa

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• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Dark

• Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.

  

  Vijay
  • Man
  • Common
  • Planned

• Who you know, 10 albums later, get better than he's ever been before? It's hard. To come from all this huge success like a 'What's Love,' and a 'Lean Back,' then take it back to the street with 'The Darkside.'

  

  Fat Joe
  • Success
  • Know
  • Like

• My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Happy

• I've never wanted to be the boss.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Boss

• A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Nothing
  • Meeting

• A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Men
  • War

• Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Life
  • Work

• The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Environment

• I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Literature

• I know you need to go,But before you do I want you to know, that IWish you the best.And I wish you nothing lessThan every thing you've ever dreamed of.And I hope that you find love along the way.But most of all,I wish you'd stay.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Hope
  • Wish

• It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Drama

• I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

  

  Daniella Alonso
  • Happy
  • Management
  • Latin

• I grew up in a unique environment where I was immersed in both Japanese and American cultures equally.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Up
  • American
  • Environment

• It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Nice
  • Sad

• To buy dinner transmits that you feel time spent in your date's company has been a pleasure and a privilege.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Time

• At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

  

  Peter Carey
  • School

• I remember my very first encounter with Japan. At that time, I was Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg. Out of nowhere, Japan's Consul General in St Petersburg came to my office and said Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to invite me to Japan. I was very surprised because I had nothing to do with Japan except being a judoka. This was an opportunity to visit Tokyo and a couple of other cities. And, you know, a capital is a capital everywhere: there is the official script and certain protocol. It is always easier to talk in the provinces, the conversation is more natural.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Remember
  • Opportunity
  • Couple

• I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Great
  • Saint
  • Claim

• In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Best
  • Criticism

• The new Khaled is enjoying life, man. Because you know what, nobody is going to congratulate you on what you really deserve.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Life

• Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Energy
  • Yoga

• These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place

  

  Fernando Pessoa