Mario Quotes

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or dinner. And if you can do that, you will restore us to the peace.

People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.

I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.