Sampietro Mar Quotes

#1. Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

Mark Slouka

#2. Men,' Gabby sighs. 'Spend all their time trying to turn you into their mothers, wanting clothes ironed, meals cooked, but then they despise you because you remind them of their mothers.

Ellie Campbell

#3. It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

Igor Eliseev

#4. I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.

David Wojnarowicz

#5. How much do you love me?' Midori asked.
'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

Haruki Murakami

#6. I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

Benjamin Bratt

#7. For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society).

Merold Westphal

#8. Shadow smiled. "And how old would that be?" "Old as my tongue," said Wednesday. "And a few months older than my teeth.

Neil Gaiman

#9. I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

#10. Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#11. Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want it.

Billy Carter

#12. Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

Stephen M. Walt

#13. Mr Nobley: Ah here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return.

Shannon Hale

#14. A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Vladimir Nabokov