Martinotti Cell Quotes & Sayings

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. — Baruch Spinoza

She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness ... A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there. — Anais Nin

An enormous round egg snatching and castrating the agile sperm;
monstorous and stuffed, the queen termite reigning over the servile
males; the praying mantis and the spider, gorged on love, crushing
their partners and gobbling them up; the dog in heat running through
back alleys, leaving perverse smells in her wake; the monkey showing
herself off brazenly, sneaking away with flirtatious hypocrisy. And
the most splendid wildcats, the tigress, lioness, and panther, lie
down slavishly under the male's imperial embrace, inert, impatient,
shrewd, stupid, insensitive, lewd, fierce, and humiliated — Simone De Beauvoir

Reality is just an interpretation. Some people believe only God really knows what's going on: we mortals just make up our own versions of it. — Kate Kerrigan

We don't think of ourselves as "prayer warriors." A man must've come up with that term - men think anything difficult is war. But prayer is more delicate than battle, especially intercessory prayer. More than just a notion, taking up the burdens of someone else, often someone you don't even know. You close your eyes and listen to a request. Then you have to slip inside their body. You are Tracy Robinson, burning for whiskey. You are Cindy Harris's husband, searching your wife's phone. You are Earl Vernon, washing dirty knots out of your strung-out daughter's hair. If you don't become them, even for a second, a prayer is nothing but words. That's — Brit Bennett

Human bodies are such garbage bags. — Dennis Cooper

I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing. — Kate Micucci

Money was not the root of all evil, it was just a vehicle that got you to power. — J.J. McAvoy

Entire countries would close their borders and build walls to keep out phantom threats. Can you imagine? — Erika Johansen

In theory it is still possible to be an orthodox religious believer without being intellectually crippled in the process. — George Orwell

Because life is not a fairytale, but we all need that one person who keeps the dream alive. You are that person for me. — E.K. Blair

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well. — Maria Bamford

We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so easy to pick up a sound byte and say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I believe that," without really thinking. — Michael Bloomberg

The world I grew up in is gone, too," I said quietly. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on it. Because if you give up - then what is there left to live for? — Danielle Paige