Bertling Artist Quotes & Sayings

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that. — Peter Dinklage

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. — Rosa Luxemburg

The Right thinks that the breakdown of the family is the source of crime and poverty, and this they very insightfully blame on the homosexuals, which would be amusing were it not so tragic. Families and 'family values' are crushed by grinding poverty, which also makes violent crime and drugs attractive alternatives to desperate young men and sends young women into prostitution. Family values are no less corrupted by the corrosive effects of individualism, consumerism, and the accumulation of wealth. Instead of shouting this from the mountain tops, the get-me-to-heaven-and-the-rest-be-damned Christianity the Christian Right preaches is itself a version of selfish spiritual capitalism aimed at netting major and eternal dividends, and it fits hand in glove with American materialism and greed. — John D. Caputo

I mean obviously, staying alive is pretty fucking important . . . but there's got to be something beyond that, right? — Isaac Marion

Getting your money's worth is not enough. Get your heart and mind's worth. — Steven Dietz

If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman — Margaret Thatcher

He had an easy manner and an honest smile. He seemed an earnest man. I did not like him. — Patrick Rothfuss

The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal. — Dan Jenkins

You know, you don't dress like someone from round here. I quite look forward to seeing what insane combination you're going to turn up in next. — Jojo Moyes