Martella Fabric Quotes & Sayings

A Saigon Proverb: Doe la chine tran, neu buon la thua. Life is a struggle in which sorrow leads to defeat. — Kim Thuy

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long. — Imre Kertesz

Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer. — May Sarton

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return. — Benjamin Spock

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day. — Benito Mussolini

I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music — Martin Luther

If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether. — Alvin Toffler

Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future ... But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride. — Winston Churchill

He felt something he'd never felt before - but he had a sinking sensation that he recognized it anyway.
He was pretty sure he felt like he was in love. — Cassandra Clare

No, I might be able to poke fun at the Quran for its childishly imperious content, but not for its style. — Rabih Alameddine

It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war. — Dan Simmons

I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them. — Danielle Dutton

There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right. — Michael Faraday

Health to me is an overall mind, body, and kind of spirit thing. — LeAnn Rimes