Efrain Martinez Quotes & Sayings

This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

Again that weird trick: knowledge falls on to the ground that seems ready prepared though you never remember doing it. — Marion Coutts

Songs from the wood make you feel much better. — Jethro Tull

Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time. — Nick Hornby

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke? — Melanie Griffith

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood. — Rip Torn

Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there. — Therese Of Lisieux

You have to be there at the right time and you've got to be equipped. — William H. Hastie

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything. — Bill Veeck

If there is "better", then there is a "best". If there is "half", then there is a "complete". Far more than being a "better half", you can be a "best complete"; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

Vincent knew he was dying. A horrendous fever overwhelmed him with intolerable pain throughout many sleepless hours. It came as a result of a malaria epidemic that erupted in his hometown during early nineteenth century Europe. The disease spread so fast, physicians had to ration their stocks of quinine only to use it on patients who weren't declared "hopeless". Vincent was one of the unlucky ones. Speculating his time on Earth may be short, he requested spiritual guidance, even if he wasn't a faithful man, nor did he believe in forgiveness. He appealed to the Church as a "just in case" like many other petrified atheists. — Don Luis Zavala

I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work. — Toni Morrison