Martellini Quotes

#1. Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.

George W. Bush

#3. She turned into a tree. It was a Mystery. It must have been. Nothing else made sense, because I didn't understand it.

Jo Walton

#4. Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

Henry Stevens

#5. You might like that one. But I'll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly ( ... )

Matthew Quick

#6. You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.

Josh Duhamel

#7. A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.

Pandita Ramabai