Fernando Pessoa Quotes
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
Quotes to Explore
-
I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
-
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
-
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
-
I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
-
I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
-
I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
-
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
-
Custom reconciles us to everything.
-
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
-
I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
-
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
-
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
-
The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
-
If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
-
'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
-
Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon
-
My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.
-
It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, and it is such an honor to be able to say that.
-
There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
-
And after they have started the action will always look, as it did to the frightened men in the Federal Reserve Board in February 1929, like a decision in favor of immediate as against ultimate death. As we have seen, the immediate death not only has the disadvantage of being immediate but of identifying the executioner.
-
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
