Marcelo Patama Quotes & Sayings

A Roman centurion walks into a bar and orders a martinus.

The bartender says, "Don't you mean a martini?"

The centurion answers, "If I wanted a double I would have ordered it. — Harlan Wolff

I hate him. Except for all the places where I love him half to death. — Charlotte Stein

The Angels of (Mercy) do not enter a house in which there are pictures (of animals). — Muhammad Al-Bukhari

Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie"). — Harriet Lerner

How had things gone so terribly wrong? She wasn't supposed to be returning to Murdoch House in defeat, and she most certainly was not supposed to be returning alone.

Lilly should be there. And Gideon. High-handed, muleheaded, wonderful Gideon. She'd never admitted it, not even to herself, but a part of her had expected him to come back to Murdoch House with her. Or perhaps it was more accurate to say that no part of her had been able to imagine going back without him. — Alissa Johnson

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience. — Al Pacino

It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark, every unexplained melancholy, took the shadowy form of the same unanswered question, something that had been there since she was sixteen years old - her mother's unspoken secret. — Kate Morton

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter. — Martin Heidegger

Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination ... — Sterling W. Sill

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. — Zora Neale Hurston

Don't forget, taste, taste, taste. — Kathleen Flinn

She imagined she could pull Time like taffy, stretching it longer and longer between her hands until the finest point had been reached, the point just before breaking, and she could live there. A point at the center of time with no going forward, no going back. Clasped in this way, without speaking, walking into no discernible ending, she could almost believe they tread on time. — Sarah Blake

Problem 3: What innovative change could be made to an alarm clock to make it more effective? Proposed solution: If you hit snooze, your coworkers are notified via e-mail that you overslept. — Anonymous

Aristotle said 'we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.'" He — Toni Aleo