Malfattori Quotes & Sayings

Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought us algebra. Also the numbers we use, including a symbol for nothing, which Europeans had never had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another. — William Shakespeare

It is of interest of times to change, Mr. Helecki. And it is the business of gentlemen to change with them. — Amor Towles

I suppose we all want things we cannot have. — Cassandra Clare

Torquelike, fear encircled her throat with its dull constant pressure....
...give the newborn child fresh from his own salt sea a look at the bigger ocean he had crossed. p 20 — Marly Youmans

You might loosen your corset strings," he advised. "It will make your journey more pleasant."
"I'm not wearing a c-corset," she said without looking at him.
"You aren't? My God." His gaze slid over her with expert assessment. — Lisa Kleypas

He played with abandon and he looked like a god. — Kylie Scott

Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred - other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul. — Halldor Laxness

What, can the devil speak true? — William Shakespeare

I remembered a few things about waking. I remembered the sense of surprise as dream life and waking life swapped primacy, and the way in which the most tangible and deeply involving dreams could bleach entirely away. — Alex Garland

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God? — Blaise Pascal

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses. — Brian K. Vaughan

The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience. And it'll come until it sounds - to me, the best songs I've written, I think, are ones that I can't hear anything - any of myself in it. It sounds like a cover song, like somebody else's song - really something you've stolen wholesale off a radio that you've listened to in someone else's flat. — Nick Lowe

I voted to send people to war. — Paul Ryan