Jose Saramago Quotes

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Jose Saramago

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: portuguese
  • Birth: November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010

Topics

LifeDeathStoryGenerationDie

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

TrustIntelligenceMeLookKnowSee

Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need to labor intensely with your own brain and soul for the meaning of the work instead of cutting and pasting a bunch of stuff together from the Internet and - boom! - there you are with a performance ready to go.

Stephen Hough

WorkLearningGreatStruggleSoul

I don't even know where Russia and Mexico are.

Trey Parker

KnowMexicoRussiaWhereEven

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

Rory Freedman

LifeMagicalChangingTraveling

I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.

Ronny Chieng

PerspectiveVoiceFaceYouSeeHear

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Donald Berwick

HealthCarePlanWealthHealthcare

I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best.

Christopher Fowler

BestLovedDarkAlwaysEveryone

At 18, I finally came into a relationship with a record label. My family got back on its feet. I was happy.

Christina Milian

FamilyRelationshipHappyFeetBack

While not a panacea for the nation's illegal immigration problems, employer sanctions are one necessary means of stopping the exploitation of vulnerable workers and the undercutting of American jobs and living standards.

Coretta Scott King

ProblemsImmigrationAmericanLiving

I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

Brittany Bowe

FocusThinkEnoughRaceTryNever

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

Shaquille O'Neal

MeBe DifferentStopNobodyAsking

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

Tyra Banks

MeMomWeekYoungWayAlways

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