Top 86 Marta Quotes
#1. The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.
Dominique Moceanu
#2. There was no room in his life for Marta, and none in her life for him; but it was a pity, all the same.
Josephine Tey
#3. We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.
Kristie Phillips
#5. On their way home, John said, "Marta, that's a long way to go so that Jacob can have a friend." "Shh," Marta said. "Ears." "What?" "We all have ears. Everyone in this car can hear, John." "Well, of course we all have ears. Oh.
Sharon Creech
#6. Paul Daigneault of The SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston gave me my Equity card playing Marta in 'Company' right before I graduated Boston University. He knew my next stop was New York. I cannot say enough good things about the SpeakEasy Stage Company.
Sara Chase
#7. you can be pinpricked to death,' said Marta. 'I think the Chinese have a torture along those lines.
Christina Bartolomeo
#8. Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.
Dominique Moceanu
#9. Family is family,' sighed the gondolier. 'Family is everything,' declared Marta Gasperin, bending to kiss the old man on the cheek, at which he flushed. She added mischievously, 'Family and books, of course.
Michelle Lovric
#10. -Back there our sun doesn't speak.
-Where's "there," Miss Marta?
-Back there, in Europe. Here, it's different. Here, the sun moans, whispers, shouts.
-Surely-I commented delicately-the sun is always the same.
- You're wrong. There, the sun is a stone. Here it's a fruit.
Mia Couto
#11. You're your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don't need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.
James Patterson
#12. I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
Jeannette Walls
#13. Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.
Marta Andreasen
#14. As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.
Marta Andreasen
#15. It's nice to have a medal, but we were hoping for a gold.
Marta Karolyi
#16. Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.
Marta Kristen
#17. Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain.
Marta Sanchez
#18. I used a light hand with my makeup because I wanted to look good without looking like a good time.
Marta Acosta
#19. We are not the only ones affected by our recovery. The spiritual awakening heals the world one person at a time.
Marta Mrotek
#20. My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope.
Marta
#21. I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.
Marta Kristen
#22. Jesus came to be the light for the world, and then there's the Christmas star and the idea of letting your light shine...But not blinding your neighbor with it.
Marta Perry
#24. Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.
Marta Kauffman
#25. La cuestion esta en decidirse en algo, alguna vez.
The gist is in deciding on something, at some time.
Marta Traba
#26. Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.
Marta
#27. Anyone can ride a bike," Jack said. "Even an elf." The corner of his mouth went up in amusement. "She can ramble through the grove, her natural habitat, and visit her animal subjects.
Marta Acosta
#29. It's a mystery to me why extraordinary young women insist that they're normal.
Marta Acosta
#31. Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.
Marta
#32. Too bad we were interrupted by Captain-brainless-bod and his trusty sidekick, Jenny-from-the-cockblock. Talk about bad timing.
Marta Brown
#33. We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.
Marta
#34. Sometimes you suffer for the things that are important to you.
Marta Acosta
#35. There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.
Marta
#36. I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.
Marta
#37. Spring is that wonderful if somewhat delusional time for a gardener when the sap rises and everything seems possible.
Marta McDowell
#38. I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.
Marta McDowell
#39. One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.
Marta
#40. God was calling them to love and to dare, not to hide and to be safe.
Marta Perry
#41. A Husband should always like his wife's cooking BEST."
in Sarah's Gift
Marta Perry
#42. Sunshine and Shadows...That is also the pattern of our lives, ain't so? We have the gut things and the sad, one after another, but all part of who we are
Marta Perry
#43. But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.
Marta
#44. I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.
Marta Kristen
#45. Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.
Marta Acosta
#46. The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
Marta Perry
#47. You really don't have to burn any bridges to let go... You don't have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on.
Marta Mrotek
#48. When we are young we cannot know
what it is like to bigger grow
but why do grown-ups great and tall
so soon forget they once were small.
Marta Moran Bishop
#49. Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.
Marta
#51. Don't get angry or frustrated if those around you choose a different lifestyle than your own. Again, people make different choices, and everyone is on a different journey. Stop judging others, and you will see that others will stop judging you. I had to learn this the hard way.
Marta Tuchowska
#52. Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'
Marta
#53. Once you commit and decide that there is no turning back, you'll find the strength.
Marta Mrotek
#54. One day blurs into the next, one week is indistinguishable from another. Their existence consists of waiting for the weekend, then waiting for retirement, and then waiting for death.
Marta Acosta
#55. Slim and neatly groomed, he looked like a really sexy mathematician unaware that he was a prime number. I wanted to unbutton his shirt, muss his hair, and exclaim, Good heavens, Professor Dracula, you're stunning!
Marta Acosta
#56. He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits."
"Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil.
Marta Acosta
#57. People with [Chronic Fatigue] who kill themselves are the millenium's favorite type of disabled citizens-- those who will walk quietly among the healthy, then quietly dispose of themselves.
Marta Russell
#58. Tell me something in your native woodland language.
Marta Acosta
#59. There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.
Marta Mrotek
#60. I've created a monster"
"No you just released one.
Marta Acosta
#61. Inside every man is a teenage boy, and we're -all- crazy in love with Shulky.
Marta Acosta
#62. It's wonderful to be part of a family that cares so much about others.
Marta Kristen
#63. Dramaturgically, you always hear that you want to see things in the moment, you want to see things happen, you don't want to talk about things, but with "Friends," it was more fun when they talked about it.
Marta Kauffman
#64. The spiritual malady that we speak of so often in recovery circles requires a spiritual solution. Nothing else will ever be enough and nothing else will last.
Marta Mrotek
#65. We don't necessarily need to know each other's name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn together by a shared desire for lasting peace.
Marta Mrotek
#66. I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.
Marta Kauffman
#67. Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.
Marta Kristen
#69. I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don't see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can't get away from that.
Marta
#70. I don't think it makes much difference what we're recovering from, all suffering eventually points to the need for healing.
Marta Mrotek
#71. I spent my childhood being cut down to fit a space where I never belonged in the first place. I spent the rest of my life searching for someone to tell me what to do with the scars.
Marta Maranda
#72. Also consider this: how can you defend paying wages so low that your full-time employees qualify for food stamps, housing assistance and medical?
Marta Tandori
#73. The potted plant could have been knocked over intentionally or accidentally, or maybe one of the animals that lived here broke it somehow.
I thought of the impossibilities and improbabilities. Jack would say that elves had broken it when they came to take me back to the wood.
Marta Acosta
#74. To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle.
Marta Kauffman
#75. I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn't understand,
because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for this boy who loved a world that never loved him.
Marta Acosta
#76. I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.
Marta Kristen
#77. Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?
Marta Andreasen
#78. I was once in a bar with a friend of mine, we were having a drink and a bunch of people walked in and they were talking about how, "It's official, there's going to be a 'Friends' reunion," and I'm sitting there with my friend going, "No, no, there's not."
Marta Kauffman
#79. Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.
Marta Kauffman
#80. When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.
Marta
#81. I'm driving so it's your job to make small talk."
"Oh."
"Not that small." He waved at the security guard as we left the club. "Make medium talk.
Marta Acosta
#82. It's easier to find out who someone isn't than who they are
Marta Perry
#83. I think my main objective is to watch as many players as I can and grab a little bit from each of them, especially the things they do well.
Marta
#84. There is a certain kind of darkness that seeps into our lives if we are not actively engaged in creating light.
Marta Mrotek
#85. We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.
Marta Kristen
#86. I said his name softly to myself. Lucky. Lucian Radcliffe. His name must come from the Latin lucianus, meaning light, and that's what he was, golden and bright.
I didn't care what Jack's name meant. Probably Jackass.
Marta Acosta
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
