Martino Quotes & Sayings

The greed of a single person must never be allowed to subvert the function of government so that one person's profit can be achieved at the expense of many. — Rocco Leonard Martino

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now. — Pat Martino

I never think of myself as lumbering, but I guess I am. I forget how huge I am sometimes. I've seen movies where I'm with a group of people, and I'm like, 'God, I'm just so gargantuanly bigger than anyone else there.' — John Carroll Lynch

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness. — Pope John Paul II

When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural. — Tom Courtenay

Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's. — Scott Adams

As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader, the bartender-what they wear, how they deal with people, the simple continuity of their presence. As you do that you'll see how you affect them , and you'll play and act accordingly. You need to study the reality of the moment, and that is very rarely about studying modes and intervals. — Pat Martino

We will each face times of difficulty, and the question is not when we will face them but how we will face them. — James B. Martino

And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier. For a moment it felt like nothing mattered anymore. Like nothing would matter ever again. — James Dashner

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse — Pat Martino

The text, written in Latin, was inspired by a fifteenth-century chef known as Maestro Martino and was called De honesta voluptate et valitudine, On honest pleasures and good health. — Bill Buford

The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus. — Pat Martino

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. — T. S. Eliot

As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.' — James B. Martino

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein. — Morrissey

The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something ... it is not because I want to master a technique. It is because I want to hear what an idea sounds like. — Pat Martino

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. — William Shakespeare

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day. — Waverley Lewis Root

Femininity is your greatest power. Embrace it! — Stacey Martino

Writing about the futility of trying to force a wolf into a vehicle, Martino describes the final stage of the conflict. The italics are hers:

"But if I continue, perhaps muttering 'Get up you lazy old dusty thing,' The wolf grabs my arm in his teeth, snarling, as if to say, Look, move me where I don't want to go, and we're going to have problems. Your problems will be bigger than mine. He then looks at me with a frank arresting stare, the strength of the mountain rumbling in his eyes. — Teresa Tsimmu Martino

I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on. — Fede Alvarez

I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you. — Helen Smith

We may never know in this life why we face what we do, but we can feel confident that we can grow from the experience. — James B. Martino

Let the ravioli simmer for the time it takes to say two Lord's Prayers. — Martino De Rossi C O William Sitwell

WHETHER IT'S A CHILD'S TOY OR A NATION'S OIL, IT'S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT. AGGRESSION. IT'S THE SPICE OF LIFE. War was right: people had to fight for what they wanted. Or maybe balance, as Famine has said
strength matched with temperance.
No, she thought. Not balance, Control. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT CONTROL, War agreed merrily. [as in the meaning of why wars happen] — Jackie Kessler

Is there not in every human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? — Victor Hugo

I thought you'd want the honor of taking down Martino."
"Oh, hell yes."
"Then what's with the look?"
"It just occured to me that as U.S. attorney, you're now in a position of authority over me."
Cameron raised an eyebrow. "Yuo're right, Agent Pallas. There is a new sheriff in town."
"Cute. How long have you been waiting to say that?"
(Jack & Cameron) — Julie James