Itziar Martinez Quotes

#1. Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Juvenal

#2. It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

Chuck Close

#3. You told dad you didn't know what happened to his underwear. But You'd just flame-broiled his shorts on the grill.

C.C. Hunter

#4. Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas.

Christopher Buckley

#5. Books that speak like God speak with too much authority to entertain us. Those that speak like good men hold us by their human charm; we grow by finding ourselves in them.

Thomas Merton

#6. On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

Julian Lennon

#7. It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.

Merold Westphal

#8. But nothing in here can hurt you unless I make it," said Holden gently, "so it's really me you're afraid of, right?

Maculategiraffe

#9. And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared.

Michael Chabon