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Quotes by Brazilian Authors

"I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's."
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Ayrton Senna
"I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's."
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"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."
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Ayrton Senna
"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."
"If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear."
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Ayrton Senna
"If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear."
God,
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"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."
"I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important."
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Gisele Bundchen
"I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important."
"I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden."
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Roberto Burle Marx
"I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden."
"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man."
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Paulo Coelho
"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man."
"Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning."
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Ayrton Senna
"Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning."
"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit."
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Ayrton Senna
"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit."
"Everything is practice."
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Pele
"Everything is practice."
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"I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam."
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Nelson Piquet
"I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam."
"I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue."
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Adriana Lima
"I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue."
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"We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside."
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David Neeleman
"We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside."
"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it."
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Paulo Coelho
"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it."
"Fear is exciting for me."
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Ayrton Senna
"Fear is exciting for me."
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"The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted."
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Walter Salles
"The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted."
"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people."
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Paulo Freire
"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people."
"Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety."
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David Neeleman
"Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety."
"Night was running ahead of itself."
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Jorge Amado
"Night was running ahead of itself."
"The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot."
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David Neeleman
"The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot."
"Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it."
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Walter Salles
"Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it."
"You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race."
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Emerson Fittipaldi
"You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race."
"Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere."
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Paulo Coelho
"Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere."
"Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount."
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David Neeleman
"Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount."
"I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular."
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David Neeleman
"I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular."
"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations."
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations."
"Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career."
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Emerson Fittipaldi
"Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career."
"The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along."
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Walter Salles
"The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along."
"I have to accept risk as a racing driver."
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Emerson Fittipaldi
"I have to accept risk as a racing driver."
"It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies."
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Ana Beatriz Barros
"It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies."
"I've never been to the gym. I do nothing."
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Adriana Lima
"I've never been to the gym. I do nothing."
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"The church must constantly promote dialogue."
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Claudio Hummes
"The church must constantly promote dialogue."
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"I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them."
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Nelson Piquet
"I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them."
"The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society."
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Claudio Hummes
"The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society."
"To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!"
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Emerson Fittipaldi
"To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!"
"And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly."
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David Neeleman
"And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly."
"Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them."
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Ayrton Senna
"Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them."
"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery."
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Paulo Coelho
"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery."
"I like to go to the movies or read."
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Adriana Lima
"I like to go to the movies or read."
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"And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension."
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Ayrton Senna
"And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension."
"I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us."
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Sonia Braga
"I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us."
"I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races."
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Emerson Fittipaldi
"I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races."
"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control."
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David Neeleman
"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control."
"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."
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Walter Salles
"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."
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"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."
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Peter Medawar
"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."
"China will be the answer to Japan's problems."
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Carlos Ghosn
"China will be the answer to Japan's problems."
"Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there."
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Ana Beatriz Barros
"Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there."
"A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it."
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Claudio Hummes
"A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it."
"I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised."
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Walter Salles
"I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised."
"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
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Pele
"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
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