Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.

Fernando Pessoa

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• Learn from your dreams what you lack.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Learn
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Trying
  • Done

• I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • More
  • Performing

• It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Hard

• When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Thought
  • My Life

• Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Environment

• Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Perfect
  • Same
  • Neighbor

• Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Black

• By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Thinking
  • Process
  • Kitchen

• Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Rock
  • Even
  • Later

• I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • Sound
  • Go

• If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Indians

• When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Time
  • Man
  • Reflect

• It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Music
  • History
  • Past

• The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Quick little splinters of life, their little lives are fun to them in the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Sea

• Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Hand

• The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Food
  • Chinese

• My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Exercise

• No, I've never truly been a minister.

  

  Little Richard
  • Never
  • Minister

• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I was a kid in the 1970s and '80s, and I was definitely inspired by Jim Henson's 'Muppets' and 'Sesame Street.' I was very curious about what was going on underneath the puppets I saw on screen. I made my own puppets, did puppet shows for schools, PTAs, churches, and the kids in my neighborhood.

  

  Matt Vogel
  • Kids
  • Inspired

• When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Together
  • Hand

• Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.

  

  Fernando Pessoa