Mario Quotes

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.

The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Ella me daba la mano y no hacía falta más. Me alcanzaba para sentir que era bien acogido. Más que besarla, más que acostarnos juntos, más que ninguna otra cosa, ella me daba la mano y eso era amor.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Después de todo la muerte es sólo un síntoma de que hubo vida.

Lo qué uno quiere de verdad, es lo que está hecho para uno; entonces hay que tomarlo, o intentar: En eso se te puede ir la Vida, pero es una vida mucho mejor…

Never let anyone know what you are thinking.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man,

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

Así estamos, cada uno en su orilla, sin odiarnos, sin amarnos, ajenos.

Cada vez que te enamores no expliques a nadie nada, deja que el amor te invada sin entrar en pormenores

Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.

Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster

He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something? Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

Posiblemente me quisiera, vaya uno a saberlo, pero lo cierto es que tenía una habilidad especial para herirme

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A mí me cuesta ser cariñoso, inclusive en la vida amorosa. Siempre doy menos de lo que tengo. Mi estilo de querer es ése, un poco reticente, reservando, el máximo sólo para las grandes ocasiones. De modo que si siempre estuviera expresando el máximo ¿qué dejaría para esos momentos (siempre hay cuatro o cinco en cada vida, en cada individuo) en que uno debe apelar el corazón en pleno? También siento un leve resquemor frente a lo cursi, y a mí lo cursi me parece justamente eso: andar siempre con el corazón en la mano.

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

No hay que prometer nada porque las promesas son horribles ataduras, y cuando uno se siente amarrado tiende a liberarse, eso es fatal.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

El Olvido está lleno de Memoria

You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo

Debe ser una regla general que los solitarios no simpaticemos ¿O será que sencillamente, somos antipáticos?

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.

He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.

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.

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Qué buen insomnio si me desvelo sobre tu cuerpo

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.

creen en Dios sólo porque ignoran que hace mucho tiempo que Dios ha dejado de creer en ellos.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Pedir perdón es humillante y no arregla nada. La solución no es pedir perdón, sino evitar los estallidos que hacen obligatorias las excusas

Cuántas palabras, sólo para decir que no quiero parecer patético.

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

عندما تتراكم الأعوام في عمر الإنسان، يبدأ بإدراك أن الوقت يفلت من بين يديه *

Me aburrí de mí mismo, de mi propia paciencia.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

Una de las cosas más agradables de la vida: ver cómo se filtra el sol entre las hojas

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

Me tomó de un brazo y me dijo, casi apoyándose en mí: ¿Sabés lo que te pasa? Que no vas a ninguna parte.

Never show anger at slight, tell nothing. Earn respect from everyone by deeds, not Words. Respect the members of your Blood Family. Gambling was Recreation, not a way to earn a Living. Love your Father, your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife. And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children. And once that happened to You, your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster

Era ese llanto que sobreviene cuando uno se siente opacamente desgraciado. Cuando alguien se siente brillantemente desgraciado, entonces sí vale la pena llorar con acompañamiento de temblores, convulsiones, y, sobre todo, con público. Pero cuando, además de desgraciado, uno se siente opaco, cuando no queda sitio para la rebeldía, el sacrificio o la heroicidad, entonces hay que llorar sin ruido, porque nadie puede ayudar y porque uno tiene conciencia de que eso pasa y al final se retoma el equilibrio, la normalidad.

The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.

We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Si tu bendita soledad se funde con la mía ya no sabré si soy en vos o vos terminás siéndome.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

A veces me siento desdichada, nada más que de no saber qué es lo que estoy echando de menos.

Sentía una inmensa ternura por ella. Estaba seguro de que la querría siempre, para mi dicha y también mi desdicha.

Lo perdido tuvo color pero ahora es incoloro. Los latidos del gastado corazón invaden nuestra noche, pero el insomnio actual tiene otra partitura. Lo perdido es también un par o dos de labios que probaron el sabor de los míos, y que ahora tan sólo puedo besar en mi memoria.

Se es o no se es, no importa el día.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

De pronto tuve conciencia de que ese momento, de que esa rebanada de cotidianidad, era el grado máximo de bienestar, era la Dicha. Nunca había sido tan plenamente feliz como en ese momento, pero tenía la hiriente sensación de que nunca más volvería a serlo, por lo menos en ese grado, con esa intensidad

Pero a mí me falta decisión, me falta estar seguro. ¿Usted ha pensado alguna vez en el suicidio? Yo sí. Pero nunca podré. Y eso también es una carencia. Porque yo tengo todo el cuadro mentar y moral de suicida, menos la fuerza que se precisa para meterse un tiro en la sien.

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

أحياناً أشعر بالتعاسة لمجرد أني لا أعرف ما هو الشيء الذي أحن إليه

it's just business nothing personal...

Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...

Te libero de mí, de mis males, de mi mal genio, de los domingos por la tarde en donde nunca puedo más, del odio a mi cumpleaños, de no saber cómo hacer para regalarte algo que no pierdas. Te libero de mi desengaño, de tu karma, de mis novedades, de la contradicción que represento. Te libero de mis llamadas que te saben a autocompasión, de mis enredos, de mi cabello suelto, largo, sin peinar,. Te libero de mi consciencia , del desconcierto a fin de mes, de la caída, de la llegada, de mi huída inevitable. Te dejo libre para que me dejes, para que me veas de lejos y me quieras menos.

Un sociólogo norteamericano dijo hace más de treinta años que la propaganda era una formidable vendedora de sueños, pero resulta que yo no quiero que me vendan sueños ajenos, si no sencillamente que se cumplan los míos.

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.

Viceversa" Tengo miedo de verte necesidad de verte esperanza de verte desazones de verte tengo ganas de hallarte preocupación de hallarte certidumbre de hallarte pobres dudas de hallarte tengo urgencia de oírte alegría de oírte buena suerte de oírte y temores de oírte o sea resumiendo estoy jodido y radiante quizás más lo primero que lo segundo y también viceversa.

Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s ‘damaged goods’, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom ‘do you still love me?’ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.

Mi táctica es mirarte aprender como sos quererte como sos mi táctica es hablarte y escucharte construir con palabras un puente indestructible mi táctica es quedarme en tu recuerdo no sé cómo ni sé con qué pretexto pero quedarme en vos mi táctica es ser franco y saber que sos franca y que no nos vendamos simulacros para que entre los dos no haya telón ni abismos mi estrategia es en cambio más profunda y más simple mi estrategia es que un día cualquiera no sé cómo ni sé con qué pretexto por fin me necesites

Bienvenida" Se me ocurre que vas a llegar distinta no exactamente más linda ni más fuerte ni más dócil ni más cauta tan solo que vas a llegar distinta como si esta temporada de no verme te hubiera sorprendido a vos también quizá porque sabes cómo te pienso y te enumero después de todo la nostalgia existe aunque no lloremos en los andenes fantasmales ni sobre las almohadas de candor ni bajo el cielo opaco yo nostalgio tu nostalgias y cómo me revienta que él nostalgie tu rostro es la vanguardia tal vez llega primero porque lo pinto en las paredes con trazos invisibles y seguros no olvides que tu rostro me mira como pueblo sonríe y rabia y canta como pueblo y eso te da una lumbre inapagable ahora no tengo dudas vas a llegar distinta y con señales con nuevas con hondura con franqueza sé que voy a quererte sin preguntas sé que vas a quererme sin respuestas.

How come she never got sad?” She did get sad, Booboo. She got sad in her way instead of yours and mine. She got sad, I’m pretty sure.” Hal?” You remember how the staff lowered the flag to half-mast out front by the portcullis here after it happened? Do you remember that? And it goes to half-mast every year at Convocation? Remember the flag, Boo?” Hey Hal?” Don’t cry, Booboo. Remember the flag only halfway up the pole? Booboo, there are two ways to lower a flag to half-mast. Are you listening? Because no shit I really have to sleep here in a second. So listen - one way to lower the flag to half mast is just to lower the flag. There’s another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height. You get me? You understand what I mean, Mario?” Hal?” She’s plenty sad, I bet.