TAXI DRIVER

Cab Dispatcher: Can you drive to the Bronx? Manhattan?
Travis Bickle: Anytime. Anywhere.
Cab Dispatcher: Do you work on Jewish holidays?
Travis Bickle: Anytime. Anywhere.
Taxi Driver— (1976)

Dave Bowman: What's the problem?

"HAL 9000 -I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."

Quero atuar consigo

"TU ou VOCÊ - uma das misturas mais indigestas para quem hoje ainda tenta escrever corretamente o nosso idioma. Essas duas áreas já são problemáticas de per si; quando se juntam, é natural que o cenário fique ainda mais confuso..."
Prof. Moreno

"Tutear - A palavra está dicionarizada, e não há base segura para afirmar que se trata de galicismo. Existe também a palavra atuar com o mesmo significado = tratar por tu."
Teresa Álvares - Ciberdúvidas

FINS DE HISTÓRIAS?

"Lastly (...), in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering the happy summer days."
- Lewis Carroll, final do livro Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,1865

BLINDNESS

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957.

DA GEOSTRATÉGIA HUMANA

"Só acredito nas pessoas que ainda se ruborizam"
Nelson Rodrigues

27 E 1/2... AND COUNTING

I AM TWENTY SEVEN, GOING ON TWENTY EIGHT...

BY HIS WORDS



La primera destilación de la caña en América se llevó a cabo en las Antillas Francesas en 1694 y el producto de ese proceso fue utilizado durante el siglo XVII como moneda de cambio para la compra de esclavos.


Los rones de etiqueta blanca son claros y de suave sabor, el de etiqueta dorada es de color ámbar y de sabor más pronunciado y más dulce, resultante de un envejecimiento más prolongado y por la adición de caramelo. Los rones oscuros se emplean en cocteles como el Rum Collins y son usados para preparar algunas salsas de postres y otros platos o para dar sabor al tabaco.

"When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does?"
Hemingway

EL PRESIDENTE Y PAPA



Boa escolha. Escolher é o mais difícil. Mas há vezes em que um Plano B se transforma na primeira escolha, então pode-se ter a confiança de poder ganhar.

Antes que se alguém se zangue:

"(...) sem mistura ou corrupção de vocábulos estrangeiros, os quais só mendigam de outras línguas  os que são pobres de cabedais da nossa, tão rica e bem dotada..."
P. António Vieira

"A opinião ... tem um fraco especial... pelas bobices reles e pelos chulismos crassos dos linguareiros sem gramática..."
Ramalho Ortigão

Grammarians and Their Ways

"When I read some of the rule for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think -
any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it"
Henry David Thoreau, Journal (1860)

"Sad study, grammar! Its whole content's one long string of accidents!"
Tony Harrison, Palladas: Poems

"Speech itself, indeed, would become almost impossible if the grammarians could follow their own rules unfailingly, and were always right." 
H.L. Mencken,  The American Language (1921) Grammarians and Their Ways

"There is no remorse like the remorse of chess." -- H.G.WELLS

A Propos de Mercenários e perdedores



"No era el hombre más honesto ni el más piadoso, pero era un hombre valiente"...
A. P. Reverte (primeiras linhas do livro, descrevendo Diego Alatriste, capitão, mercenário e histórico perdedor).

PRIMEIRO O FIM

"You must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame." -Capablanca

"I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator's wife? I like to think that you killed a man. It's the romantic in me."
- "It's a combination of all three."
- "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?"
- "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters."
- "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert."
- "I was misinformed."

You shouldn't ask me for advice. When it comes to relationships with women, I'm the winner of the August Strindberg Award.
W. Allen, Manhattan