Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?

Fernando Pessoa

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• If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Leader
  • Darkness

• I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I still like my antique clothes.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Like
  • Clothes
  • Still

• I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Feeling

• You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Loving

• I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Funny

• On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Think
  • Political

• My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Way
  • Best
  • Three

• When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?

  

  Parker Harris
  • Time
  • Service
  • Thought

• I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Up
  • Think
  • Running

• Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Period
  • Nothing
  • Coffee

• I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Different
  • House
  • Air

• I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Hope
  • Learned
  • Illness

• Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Dog

• He Giovanni Ardini, Italian master-carver opened up a new vista for me of the quality of form, light, and colour contained in the Mediterranean conception of carving.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Up
  • Light
  • Quality

• Should there be a question of returning or Of death in memory’s dream? Is spring a sleep?This warmth is for lovers at last accomplishing Their love, this beginning, not resuming, this Booming and booming of the new-come bee.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Death
  • Dream
  • Question

• Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• When Barack Obama won in 2008, in 2009 I voted for his team because I think that - that the American people wanted him to have his team. But don't think I wasn't worried about it. Really worried.

  

  John McCain
  • People
  • American
  • Team

• Dear William Shakespeare. I am a 14 year old and I’m queer like you. I’m learning art. I wanted to be a queer artist like Leonardo or Michaelangelo. But I like Francis Bacon best I read Alan Ginsberg, Rimbaud. I like Tchaikovsky, if I make films I will make them like Eisenstein, Murnau, Pasolini, Visconti. Love from Derek.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Art
  • Learning

• I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.

  

  Steven R. McQueen
  • Growing
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?

  

  Fernando Pessoa