Marthaler Quotes & Sayings

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back
to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never
yours to begin with. — Jack Engelhard

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle. — H.L. Mencken

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. — Jean Rostand

Fill your life with light! — Seth Adam Smith

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. — Ruth Rendell

If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you. — Chuck D

You know he will take the credit for your good ideas, and you the blame for his bad ones? When fortune turns against you, you will feel her lash: you always, he never.
One day, when you are still adjusting your harness, you will look up and see him thundering downhill.
pg. 495 — Hilary Mantel

Take the gun. Leave the cannoli. — Mario Puzo

By noon everyone had heard that I had spent the night with Marti in a hotel room and when the cops came by, with our mothers, I had asked for time to get dressed. It was also all over the school that I had deliberately provoked Gratz and lived to tell of it, and that Paul had knocked me flat. And on top of that, Spooky Darla had given me a thermonuclear kiss in public.
No getting away from it: I was now Public Madman Number One. — John Barnes

Kindness can be short, sweet, transient, and random, but its effects echo forever. — Debasish Mridha