Frank Marino Quotes & Sayings

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks. — Saint John Chrysostom

Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you had to grow up with rats scampering in your backyard, because the city services were cut in half and the population in your neighborhood doubled, then that also is going to mean that the flora and fauna are going to grow as well. So that's a part of it. That's why I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. — Sandra Cisneros

The two palm worms are brought in separate bowls, still alive, wriggling fiercely in a bath of turpentine-colored fish sauce with a few slivers of chili. The glossy brown heads of the grubs, the larvae of a weevil that infests palm trees, glisten like popcorn seeds; the wriggling abdomens have pale rubbery ridges. The owner of the restaurant, chubby and affable, comes out to instruct Nhat and me: we are to grasp the heads, pull off the fat white bodies with our teeth, and discard the heads, taking care that the larvae do not nip our tongues with their formidable pincers in the process. Biting down on squirming larvae seems barbaric, but my brain is starting to swim due to hunger, and the fish sauce is muskily aromatic. How bad could their fat glistening bodies taste? And am I not a direct descendant of insectivores, albeit roughly 100 million years removed? I — Stephen Le

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just ... — William Shakespeare

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act. — Kelly Preston

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. — Sarah Dessen

Fear was like a tick to them. They knew there were times when it was going to crawl on them, but they sure didn't want it embedded in their skin and sucking their blood. — Dan Groat

[If] we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much. — Bertrand Russell

Howard Hughes was in serious trouble. — Donald L. Barlett

The telephone was a sign of being rushed. — David Halberstam

It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think. — Sherry Argov

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens? — Wislawa Szymborska

We had to go back to the coffeehouse: the Wreck was there. Mel had walked over. Well, I don't know about walked. He had come over without vehicular assistance anyway. — Robin McKinley

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of. — Leighton Meester

I might not have told you if I'd known why you were asking. — Katherine Rundell