Martynov Aleksandr Quotes & Sayings

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. — Terry Pratchett

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart. — Charlie Munger

His [the pedestrian's] elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts his at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was 'possessed' into a text that lies before one's eyes. It allows one to read it, to be a solar Eye, looking down like a god. The exaltation of a scopic and gnostic drive: the fiction of knowledge is related to this lust to be a viewpoint and nothing more. — Michel De Certeau

Something so hard can be so easy if you just have a little help. In the right place, under the right conditions, you can finally stretch out into what you're supposed to be. — Hope Jahren

Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him. — John Steinbeck

But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently. — Elizabeth McCracken

Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that. — Rumi

I absolutely love low-key restaurants. — Andy Cohen

The forest, the virgin forest, the life of a woodcutter - that has always been my ideal. — Thomas Bernhard

I could lend you a very fast horse" - Death — Terry Pratchett

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me. — Paul Butterfield

You say that every morning."
Miles shrugged. "You're late every morning."
"Then wake me up sooner."
"I have a better idea - why don't you go to sleep when I tell you to?"
"I'm not tired then. I'm only tired in the mornings."
"Join the club. — Nicholas Sparks

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize. — Napoleon Bonaparte