Garantito Martellato Quotes & Sayings

To have peace, you have to have Pain — Pein

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. — Oscar Wilde

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life — Willard Gaylin

His mouth started to speak, but his brain decided it hadn't got anything to say yet and shut it again. His brain then started to contend with the problem of what his eyes told it they were looking at, but in doing so relinquished control of the mouth which promptly fell open again. Once more gathering up the jaw, his brain lost control of his left hand which then wandered around in an aimless fashion. For a second or so the brain tried to catch the left hand without letting go of the mouth and simultaneously tried to think about what was buried in the ice, which is probably why the legs went and Arthur dropped restfully to the ground. — Douglas Adams

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell. — John Adams

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there. — Nadine Gordimer

I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal, and is known as the harmonic series. — Leonard Bernstein

the real causes of any existing depression. For the real causes, most of the time, are maladjustments within the wage-cost-price structure: maladjustments between wages and prices, between prices of raw materials and prices of finished goods, or between one price and another or one wage and another. — Henry Hazlitt

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score. — Jimmy Buffett

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. — Alan King

When my mom pulled the trigger my dad had a full house, three fives and a pair of ducks. He was all in. The paper says although dead, he ended up winning seven grand. I once heard someone on tv say we die as we lived. That sounds about right. — David Ebershoff

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists. — Daniel Woodrell