Fernando Pessoa Quotes

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

Fernando Pessoa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: portuguese
  • Birth: June 13, 1888 - November 30, 1935

Topics

TodayFeelRememberYesterdayLiving

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

Jean-Marc Vallee

SadBeautifulSolitudeYouPiano

On a movie, you often work fourteen-, sixteen-hour days, six days a week, for six months. It is so easy to let up because of fatigue.

Michael Cimino

WorkWeekEasyYouUpDays

I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the staircase in a huge Hollywood mansion.

Siri Hustvedt

CollegeStaircaseHolidayHollywood

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

Tony Judt

RelationshipIdeasWritingLostDone

The advantage of knowing about risks is that we can change our behavior to avoid them. Of course, it is easily observed that to avoid all risks would be impossible; it might entail no flying, no driving, no walking, eating and drinking only healthy foods, and never being touched by sunshine. Even a bath could be dangerous.

Robert F. Engle

ChangeSunshineRisksEatingFlying

Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them.

Lisa Jewell

BookInsideEveryoneGotThinks

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

Joseph Heller

YouEnemyMatterSideGoingGet

Life is unpredictable and you need to live every day to the fullest.

Doug Hutchison

LifeLiveDayYouEvery DayFullest

Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.

Brian Stelfreeze

CreativePeopleFallCreative People

Eureka! - I have found it!

Archimedes

FoundEureka

I try to do as much as possible for every character. Some of them, it is easier to do the research because you have either real examples that you work with, maybe some specific person that inspires you in that case, or the performances from other people, or the characters, or a character from a book.

Penelope Cruz

WorkCharacterPeopleResearchBook

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

Paul Weller

CharacterMeThinkPlayShyNeed

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