Martinson Coffee Quotes

#1. It's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

E. E. Cummings

#2. From the opening lines of the play Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise

All you need,
To find poetry,
Is to look for it with a lantern.

Wallace Stevens

#3. If I die, I am so coming back to haunt you."
"You can even watch me shower.

Jennifer Harlow

#4. You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But ... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?

Neil Gaiman

#5. If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus ...

Hilaire Belloc

#6. To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

Salman Rushdie

#7. I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

J.K. Rowling

#8. The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

Dennis Hastert