Sofia > Sofia's Quotes

“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”
― Lady Gaga

“The thing about getting old, Bar,” Toot had told me, “is that you’re the same person inside.” I remember her eyes studying me through her thick bifocals, as if to make sure I was paying attention. “You’re trapped in this doggone contraption that starts falling apart. But it’s still you. You understand?” I did now.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.”
― Adam Savage

“Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.”
― David Allen

“I realized with fresh horror that new doors of perception were opening up inside.
New? Not so. OLD doors of perception.
The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe. Children see everything their eyes happen upon, hear everything in their ears' range. But if life is the rise of consciousness…, then it is also the reduction of input. Terror is the widening of perspective and perception. The horror was in knowing I was swimming down to a place most of us leave when we get out of diapers and into training pants. I could see it on Ollie's face, too. When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”
― Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere

“Quer dizer que temos palavras a mais, Quero dizer que temos sentimentos a menos, Ou temo-los, mas deixámos de usar as palavras que os expressam, E portanto perdemo-los”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“(...) o primeiro cego procurou a mão da mulher e apertou-a, por este gesto se observa quanto o descanso do corpo pode contribuir para a harmonia dos espíritos.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

“Come, lay thy head upon my breast and I'll kiss thee unto rest.”
― Lord Byron