Quotes and Sayings about Martin
"Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions."
- Martin Amis
(Related: Style)
"You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star."
- Martin Amis
(Related: Being)
"Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough."
- Martin Amis
(Related: Money, Meaning, Weapons)
"Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy."
- Martin Amis
(Related: Money, Strength, Addiction, Evil, Fiction, Mind)
"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."
- Martin Amis
"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn."
- Martin Amis
(Related: Art, Lie, Will)
"Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Martin, Will)
"And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development."
- Will Arnett
(Related: Development, Brothers, Glory, Martin)
"Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?"
- Christine Baranski
"Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Press)
"The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Home, Children)
"The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Opportunity, Achievement, Film)
"The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Time, First, Years)
"The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Time, Royalty)
"This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Life, People, Reason)
"You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Business)
"Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Mother, Children)
"I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity."
- Martin Bashir
"We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Life, Appearance, Film)
"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Legal, Family, Advice, Agreement)
"Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Determination, Curiosity, Interest)
"If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Question)
"I have an inate curiosity about people."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: People, Curiosity)
"I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Life, Facts, Film)
"He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Being, Children)
"It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?"
- Martin Bashir
(Related: World)
"It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Experience)
"If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it."
- Gerry Beckley
(Related: Experience, Martin, Years)
"Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?"
- Robert Benchley
"I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it."
- Cate Blanchett
(Related: Education, Work, Thought, Being, Martin, World)
"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Discrimination, Insults, Martin)
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
- Humphrey Bogart
"Every educated person is a future enemy."
- Martin Bormann
(Related: Enemy, Future)
"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"
- Martin Bormann
(Related: Death, Life, Work, Music, Books, Man, Names)
"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable."
- Martin Bormann
(Related: Christianity, Socialism)
"Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh."
- Martin Bormann
(Related: Life, Earth, Struggle)
"I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could."
- Andre Braugher
(Related: March, Martin, Washington)
"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."
- Martin Buber
(Related: God, Quality, Being, Man)
"Through the Thou a person becomes I."
- Martin Buber
"There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Life, Thought, Action, Being, Conflict, Man, Principles, Speech)
"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
- Martin Buber
(Related: World)
"The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Deep, Law, Man)
"Solitude is the place of purification."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Solitude)
"To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Old)
"For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Nature, Soul, Being, Conflict, Man, Silence, Sin)
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Power, Eyes, Language)
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
- Martin Buber
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for."
- Martin Buber
"Play is the exultation of the possible."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Play)
"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Open, Surrender)
"Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Genius, First, Results, Universe, World)
"The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Government, Successful, Present)
"The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Civilization, Hope, Attention, Country, State)
"With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Government, Congress, Respect, states, United)
"The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Government, Thought, Excitement)
"With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Desire, Difficulty, Future, Present, Understanding)
"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Government, Prosperity)
"The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Law, Limits, Public, Will)
"The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: People)
"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Power, God, Country, Man, Opinion, Public, Public opinion, Unworthy, Will)
"We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Peace, Country, Rights, Honor, Nations)
"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Country)
"The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Government, Banks, Community, Connection, Reality)
"The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Faith, Performance, states, United)
"Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Russia, states, United, Will)
"The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Army, Effect, Law, Military, Past, states, United)
"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Success, Trust, People, Ability)
"Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Business, Banks, Country, Laws, states, Will)
"Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Congress, Legislation, Trade, Will, Wishes)
"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Constitution, Country, Desire, Duty, Spirit, Will)
"I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Trust, Men, People, Footsteps)
"In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Government, Benefits, Community, Will)
"It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Nation, Pleasure)
"It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Government, Money, Countries, Events, Public, Punishment)
"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Evil, Result)
"Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Spirit, Will)
"If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Acting, Laws, Limits, states)
"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Accomplishment, Conviction, Necessity, Opinion, Public)
"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Life, Office, Presidency, Surrender)
"I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
- Steve Buscemi
(Related: Martin)
"When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary."
- Red Buttons
(Related: People, Martin)
"The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again."
- Ruth Buzzi
(Related: Love, Comedy, Martin, Variety, Writers)
"You're never fully dressed without a smile."
- Martin Charnin
(Related: Smile)
"Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Custom, Day)
"This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Faith, God, Church, Christ, Doctrine, First, Will, Writing)
"Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Body, Christ, Eating, Meaning)
"In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Faith, Nature, Brother, God, Christ, First, Man)
"Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Nature, First, Human nature)
"Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Love, Diligence, Fathers, Praise, Scripture)
"For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Conscience, Grace, Investigation, Reading, Scripture)
"For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: God, Christ, Man, May, Order)
"As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Christian, Necessity, Present)
"And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Difference)
"I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Attention, Language, Meditation)
"If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Martin)
"One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Career, Day, Martin, President)
"I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!"
- George Clooney
(Related: Time, Dream, Drinking, Play)
"I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of."
- Gary Cole
(Related: First, Martin)
"You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29."
- Robert Conrad
(Related: Successful, Man, Martin)
"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: World)
"I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up."
- Graham Coxon
(Related: Folk, Guitar, Martin, Possession)
"The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself."
- Martin van Creveld
"As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide."
- Martin van Creveld
(Related: History, War, Force, Struggle, Suicide)
"Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources."
- Martin van Creveld
(Related: Doubt, Military, Will)
"Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected."
- Martin Van Creveld
(Related: War, People, Majority)
"If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot."
- Martin van Creveld
(Related: Fighting)
"In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer."
- Martin van Creveld
(Related: Future, Past, Sun, Will)
"It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight."
- Martin Van Creveld
(Related: War, People, End, Fact, Fight, May, Order)
"Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me."
- Martin van Creveld
(Related: Work, Help, Praise, Sun, Will, Years)
"The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting."
- Martin Van Creveld
(Related: Acting, Enemy, Living, Needs)
"Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag."
- Adrian Cronauer
(Related: Equality, Belief, American, Martin)
"I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things."
- Chuck D.
(Related: People, Now, Right)
"Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things."
- Matt Damon
(Related: People, Killing)
"Every people should be originators of their own destiny."
- Martin Delany
(Related: People, Destiny)
"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr."
- Martin Delany
(Related: Affection, Favorite)
"Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States."
- Martin Denny
(Related: Depression, Parents, Pretty, states, United)
"Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone."
- Martin Denny
(Related: Living, Now)
"Oh yeah, that was the thing to do at that time. This was before the new wave of bebop started."
- Martin Denny
(Related: Time)
"The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!"
- Martin Denny
(Related: Beach, Friends, Night, Play, Right)
"To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Winning, Martin, Pretty)
"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: People, Martin, Waiting)
"The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Care, Martin)
"Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers."
- Jamie Farr
(Related: Canada, Martin)
"Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Business, Inflation)
"But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: April, Beginning, Months, Trade, Value)
"Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Policy, Inflation)
"Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: May, Months, Will)
"First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Science, Economics, First)
"Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Home, Time)
"I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Past)
"If the Federal Reserve pursues a strong dollar at home while the dollar becomes more competitive in global markets, we can achieve both price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Home, Growth, Stability)
"But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Finance, Borrowing, Countries, states, United)
"Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Government, Work, Growth, Investment, Taxes)
"And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Science, Art, Financial, Problems)
"My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: America, Evening, Needs)
"So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Policy, Sound, Want)
"The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Home, News)
"The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Trade, Value)
"The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Financial, Dependence, Rest, Trade, World)
"The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Power, Oil, Summer)
"Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Arguments, Inflation, Today, Years)
"To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Finance, American, Rest, Trade, World)
"In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Experience, Growth, Inflation, Now, Theory)
"An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: America, American, Wage, Will)
"Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Change, Sensitivity, Trade, Uncertainty)
"After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Ability)
"A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Science, Financial, Behavior, Reason)
"A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Business, Growth, Investment)
"We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Gain, Inflation)
"Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Foreigners, Interest, Trade, Will)
"We are particularly poor at the open economy issues."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Economy, Open, Poor)
"But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Economy, Future, May, Reason)
"The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Art, Medicine, Practice)
"Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Work, Nature, Advice, Partnership)
"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Work, Day, Profession)
"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Rules)
"A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Work, Man, Poor, Skill)
"Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Beginning, End, Practice)
"Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Science, Purpose, Theory)
"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Work, Truth, Practice, Proof)
"We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Earth)
"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Death, Management, First, Reform)
"When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Balance, Doctors, Man)
"I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Men)
"In diagnosis think of the easy first."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: First)
"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Medical, Science, Understanding, Worth)
"None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'."
- Martin H. Fischer
"Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Business, Mind, Necessity, Research, State)
"The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Education, Doctors, Poverty)
"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Men, Cure, Drugs, Reason)
"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Science, Facts, Literature)
"Whenever ideas fail, men invent words."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Men, Ideas, Words)
"You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Jargon, Talk)
"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking."
- Martin Henry Fischer
(Related: Thinking)
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."
- Martin Henry Fischer
(Related: Education, Driving)
"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
- Martin Henry Fischer
(Related: Birds, Drugs)
"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."
- Martin Henry Fischer
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge, Facts, Lies)
"It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Worth)
"Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Time, Idea, Development, Community, First, Research)
"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Theory)
"Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Work, First)
"So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Fact, Now, Potential, Research)
"Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Fact, Scientists, Workers)
"One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Songs)
"I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Science, American)
"Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Economics, Now, Value, Will)
"You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really."
- Martin Fleischmann
"Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Time, Thought, Development, Now, Protection, University)
"It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Will)
"I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Science, American)
"I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Design, Work, Time)
"I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely."
- Martin Fleischmann
"I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Successful, Calculations, First, Worth, Years)
"I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Science, Work)
"At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Work, Past)
"American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Science, American)
"It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Age, History, Medical, Mind, United)
"If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature."
- Martin Fleischmann
(Related: Fact)
"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."
- Steve Forbert
(Related: Guitar, Martin)
"When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married."
- Megan Fox
(Related: HusbPeople, Eyes, Old, Order, Talk)
"You don't want to get me started about apple martinis and the affect they have on my lovemaking. I might just throw you down and make some love to you right here and now."
- Rick Fox
(Related: Love, Now, Right, Want)
"Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship."
- Barney Frank
(Related: America, Martin, Worship)
"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
- Martin Freeman
(Related: Words)
"Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned."
- Martin Freeman
(Related: Music, People, Clothes, Culture, First)
"I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow."
- Martin Freeman
(Related: Home, Drinks, Weekend)
"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
- Morgan Freeman
(Related: American, Martin)
"Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive."
- Morgan Freeman
(Related: Peace, Civil rights, Martin, Memory, Will)
"I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest."
- Martin Frost
(Related: Republicans)
"The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained."
- Martin Frost
(Related: Country)
"Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both."
- Martin Frost
(Related: Delay)
"Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice."
- Martin Frost
(Related: Day, Television)
"All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms."
- Martin Frost
(Related: Needs, Party)
"Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success."
- Martin Frost
(Related: Success, Future, Internet, Today)
"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
- Martin Fry
(Related: First, Name)
"I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable."
- Martin Fry
"Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically."
- Martin Fry
(Related: Pretty, Song)
"In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song."
- Peter Gallagher
(Related: Family, Friends, Martin, Singing, Song)
"Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies."
- Peter Gallagher
(Related: Movies, Thought, Martin, Television, World)
"A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship."
- Martin Gardner
(Related: Work, God, Creation, Order, Worship)
"If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?"
- Martin Gardner
(Related: God, Dancing, Laws, Living, Obedience, World)
"There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry."
- Martin Gardner
(Related: Difference, Geometry, Nothing)
"Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?"
- Martin Goldsmith
(Related: School, Teachers)
"Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning."
- Martin Goldsmith
(Related: Life)
"Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all."
- Martin Goldsmith
(Related: Fate, Force, Reason)
"That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you."
- Martin Goldsmith
(Related: Life, Fate)
"I'm not particularly prolific."
- Martin Gore
"It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Conflict, Interest, Songs)
"Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Question, Songs, Trying)
"There haven't been many credible electronic covers records."
- Martin Gore
"There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records."
- Martin Gore
"Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Music, Film, Years)
"Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Music)
"People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Death, People, America, Favorite, First, Song)
"I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Years)
"I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Idea, Play, Will)
"The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Home, Time, Family, Football, Majority, Play)
"I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Darkness)
"I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Songs)
"I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Girlfriend, School, Singing, Years)
"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Guitar)
"Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Music, Error, Mind)
"When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden."
- Martin Gore
(Related: People)
"Anything that I write comes from the soul."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Soul)
"I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different."
- Martin Gore
(Related: People, Hate, Songs)
"I didn't write songs for a very long time."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Time, Songs)
"I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Music, Poems)
"I wasn't ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them."
- Martin Gore
"I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode."
- Martin Gore
"I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Song)
"I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man."
- Dick Gregory
(Related: Man, Martin)
"Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations."
- Martin L. Gross
(Related: Government)
"Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries."
- Martin L. Gross
(Related: Employees)
"Politicians are masters of the art of deception."
- Martin L. Gross
(Related: Art, Deception, Politicians)
"The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet."
- Martin L. Gross
(Related: Men, Tax, Laws, Understanding, Wage, Worth)
"We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy."
- Martin L. Gross
(Related: Politics, Philosophy, World)
"True time is four-dimensional."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Time)
"Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Time, Being, Nothing)
"Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Time, Result, Sense)
"To dwell is to garden."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Garden)
"To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Being, Metaphysics)
"Transcendence constitutes selfhood."
- Martin Heidegger
"We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Time, Being)
"We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Time, Being, Name, Right)
"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Action)
"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: History)
"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Thought, Reason, Thinking)
"Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Nothing)
"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Body)
"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Being, Formula, Physics, World)
"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Men, Man)
"Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Food, Agriculture, Bombs, Countries, Famine, Now, Production)
"As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Consciousness, Ego)
"The possible ranks higher than the actual."
- Martin Heidegger
"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: History)
"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Time, Thought, Thinking)
"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Death, Life, Anxiety, Will)
"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Truth, Being, Language)
"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Philosophy, Suicide)
"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Being, Man)
"Only a god can save us."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: God)
"The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Action, Decision, Future, Law, Now, Present, Reality, Responsibility)
"The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Being, Language)
"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Being)
"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Fact, Language, Man)
"Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being."
- Martin Heidegger
(Related: Time, Being)
"It is a little weird now, going over to Heath's place. It's like, 'Hi Heath, hi Nomes.' Very strange!"
- Martin Henderson
(Related: Now)
"Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper."
- Martin Henderson
(Related: Development, Character, Horror)
"I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants."
- Martin Henderson
(Related: Work, Thought, Job, Now, Trying, University, Want)
"It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood."
- Martin Henderson
(Related: Challenge, Hollywood)
"The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit."
- Martin Henderson
(Related: Habit, American, Coach, Months)
"Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'"
- Martin Henderson
(Related: Success, First, Lonely, Man, Obvious, states, Support)
"The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Court, First)
"When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Mother, Friends, Meetings, Tennis)
"The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game."
- Martina Hingis
"Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Home)
"We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one."
- Martina Hingis
"The older you get, the more you learn."
- Martina Hingis
"The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Difference, Meetings, Now, Talk, Trying)
"I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: People, Chance, Play, Saying, Tennis)
"That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Athletes, Jealousy, Reason, Training, Weather)
"Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Time)
"Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Baseball, Now, Right, Tennis)
"Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Now)
"No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Pretty, Reason)
"I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Years)
"Sometimes you want to make your own experiences."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Want)
"I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Parents)
"I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Mom, Peace)
"I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Court, Kids, Tennis)
"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Sports, Women)
"I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Women, Tennis, Years)
"I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Life, Anticipation)
"I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Victory, Being, Open)
"I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Fitness, Ability, Girls, Mind)
"I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: People, Attitude, Credit, Deals, Tennis)
"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Computer, Internet, News)
"He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Trust, Father, People, Want)
"Any tournament you go to, you want to win it."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Want)
"If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it."
- David Horowitz
(Related: Birthday, Time, Congress, Holiday, Martin, Years)
"It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini."
- Nancy Kerrigan
(Related: Fun)
"Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul."
- Billie Jean King
(Related: Now, Years)
"Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open."
- Billie Jean King
(Related: People, Open, Want)
"Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank."
- Don King
(Related: Martin, Want)
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Aggression, Conflict, Man, Revenge)
"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Christian, Prayer)
"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Life, Nothing)
"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Deep, Disappointment)
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Hate, Man, Nonviolence, Spirit)
"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Man, Nonviolence)
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Bitterness, Temptation)
"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: War, Poor, Tomorrow)
"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Progress, Purpose, Justice, Law, Order)
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Friend, Enemy, Force)
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Life, Question)
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Man)
"A lie cannot live."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Lie)
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Leader)
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Legal, Forget, Germany)
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Reality)
"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Man)
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Poor)
"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Conservative, Radical, Right, Wrong)
"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Work, Life, Job, Living, Man)
"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Enemies, Friends, Silence, Will, Words)
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: People, Actions, Silence, Will, Words)
"We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Action, Tension)
"We must use time creatively."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Time)
"We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Men)
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Power, Love, Enemies, Evil, Hate)
"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Peace, War, Negative, Affirmation)
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Fear, Courage)
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Hope, Disappointment, Infinite)
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: May, Now, Ships)
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Brothers, Fools)
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: History)
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Law, Man, May, Pretty)
"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: People, Character, Content, Day, Skin, Will)
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Dream, Day, Glory, Will)
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Darkness, Hate, Light)
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Society, Truth, Lie, Inferiority, Discrimination, Waking)
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Altruism, Darkness, Light, Man, Selfishness, Will)
"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Shadow)
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Faith, First)
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Freedom)
"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Enemies, Evil, Hate, World)
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Evil)
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: History, People, Silence, Tragedy, Will)
"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Death, Men, Civilization, Nation, Spiritual)
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Lies, Salvation)
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Burden, Hate)
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Change, Work, Freedom, Man, Struggle)
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Dream, Character, Children, Content, Day, Nation, Skin, Will)
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Sacrifice, Progress, Goal, Concern, Justice, Struggle, Suffering)
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Dream, Brotherhood, Day, Sons, Will)
"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: God, People, Land, May, Want, Will)
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Peace, War, Truth, Brotherhood, Mankind, Midnight, Racism, Reality, Will, Word)
"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Community, Conscience, Injustice, Law, Reality, Respect)
"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Man, Will)
"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Brother, Man, Want)
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Man, Will)
"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Death, Brothers, Nothing, Sisters, Spirit)
"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Control, Values, Reality, Spiritual)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: End, Enemies, Friends, Silence, Will, Words)
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Injustice)
"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Society)
"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Peace, War, Sacrifice, Wage)
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Truth, Evil, Reality, Right, Will, Word)
"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Power, Right)
"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Community, Conscience, Imprisonment, Injustice, Law, Order, Reality, Respect)
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Humanity, Living)
"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Minority, World)
"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Progress, Solution)
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Money, Defense, Military, Nation, Spiritual)
"A right delayed is a right denied."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Right)
"A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Language, Riot)
"A riot is the language of the unheard."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Language, Riot)
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love)
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Dignity, Excellence, Humanity, Importance, Labor)
"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Life, Being, Earth, Rights, Man, Property, Respect)
"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Sympathy, Soul, Concern, Giving, May, Pity)
"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Cause, Circumstances, Injustice, Philanthropy)
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Peace, Goal)
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Men, Power, Spiritual)
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Day, End)
"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Community, Conscience, Imprisonment, Injustice, Law, Order, Reality, Respect)
"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: War, Society, Vietnam)
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Ignorance, Nothing, Stupidity, World)
"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Equality, Autumn, Discontent, Freedom, Summer, Will)
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Men, People, Answers, Nothing, Quest, Thinking)
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Ignorance, Nothing, Stupidity, World)
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Conflict, Hell)
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: People, Cruelty, Oppression, Silence, Tragedy)
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Challenge, Comfort, Controversy, Man, Measure, Moments)
"The time is always right to do what is right."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Time, Right)
"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Nation, Question, Will, World)
"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Past, Poor)
"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Guilt, Man, Needs)
"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Justice, Universe)
"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Life, Quality, Longevity)
"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Defeat, Questions, Sense)
"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Power, Religion, Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Control, Man)
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Peace, Hope, Brotherhood, Justice, Lies, World)
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Education, Intelligence, Character, Goal)
"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?""
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: First, Help, Man, Question, Will)
"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Art, Acceptance)
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Time, Blind, Eye, Law, Old, Right)
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Faith, First)
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: People, Understanding, Will)
"Seeing is not always believing."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Men, Power, Spiritual)
"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures."
- Martin Kippenberger
(Related: Art, Entertainment)
"A good artist has less time than ideas."
- Martin Kippenberger
(Related: Time, Ideas, Artist)
"Entertainment and art are not isolated."
- Martin Kippenberger
(Related: Art, Entertainment)
"I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!."
- Martin Kippenberger
"I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling."
- Martin Kippenberger
(Related: People, Trying)
"My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history."
- Martin Kippenberger
(Related: History, Actions, Decisions, Facts, Personality, Style)
"What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood."
- Martin Kippenberger
(Related: People)
"What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts."
- Martin Kippenberger
(Related: People, Will)
"You really can't bring about anything new with art."
- Martin Kippenberger
(Related: Art)
"Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all."
- Martin Kippenberger
(Related: Work, Style)
"Nobody helps anybody."
- Martin Kippenberger
"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."
- J. Martin Kohe
(Related: Power)
"Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable."
- J. Martin Kohe
(Related: Being, Will)
"You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day."
- J. Martin Kohe
(Related: Day, Force)
"Let us choose to believe something good can happen."
- J. Martin Kohe
"When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Hope, Boston, Freedom, Leaders, Martin, Teaching)
"The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Policy, Dream, Difference, Martin, Now, Pretty, Public, Public policy, Teaching)
"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Public)
"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: World)
"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Love, Being)
"There is a woman at the begining of all great things."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Woman)
"The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: People)
"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: People, Dogs)
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: World)
"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: History, Providence)
"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: God, Nature, Desire, Heaven, Infinite, Man)
"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Heroes, Poets, Race)
"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Habit, Day)
"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Happiness, Grief)
"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Experience, Men, Prophecy)
"Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Cruelty, Difference, Mankind)
"A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: God, Conscience, Court)
"I did theatrical caricatures."
- Martin Landau
"Just five years before that the Russians were our allies."
- Martin Landau
(Related: Years)
"And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living."
- Martin Landau
(Related: Living)
"Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work."
- Martin Landau
(Related: Life, Work, Value)
"Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany."
- Martin Landau
(Related: Work, Thought, Germany)
"I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans."
- Martin Landau
(Related: Success, Hope, Fans, Help, Space, Will)
"I've always been interested in science fiction."
- Martin Landau
(Related: Science, Fiction)
"You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way."
- Martin Landau
(Related: Reason, Will)
"The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry."
- Martin Landau
(Related: Comedians)
"I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop."
- Martin Landau
"Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends."
- Anthony LaPaglia
(Related: Funny, Being, Friends, Martin)
"I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do."
- Martin Lawrence
(Related: God, Life, Opportunity, Vision, Blessings, Mistakes)
"I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?"
- Martin Lawrence
(Related: Soul, Key, Sound, Want)
"If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate."
- Martin Lawrence
"Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not."
- John Leeson
(Related: Hair, Martin)
"I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Experience, Martin)
"I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin."
- Joe E. Lewis
(Related: Man, Martin)
"Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager."
- Donal Logue
(Related: Family, Martin)
"I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Men, May, Opinions)
"God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Bible, Clouds, Flowers, Stars, Trees)
"Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Heart, Help, May)
"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Heart, Hell, Labor, Schools, Will, Youth)
"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Heart, Self)
"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Conscience, Help, Right, Will)
"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Now)
"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Conscience, End, Justice, Will)
"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Fear)
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Nature, Gold)
"If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Life, Faith, People, Risk)
"If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Heaven, Want)
"If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Heaven, Want)
"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Faith, Heart, Will)
"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God)
"For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Church, Devil)
"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Home, Wife, Husband)
"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."
- Martin Luther
(Related: First)
"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Faith, Reason, Sense, Understanding)
"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Faith)
"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Faith, Life, God, Confidence, Grace, Living, Man)
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Hope, World)
"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Dying, Man)
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Tomorrow, World)
"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."
- Martin Luther
(Related: History, Blood)
"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Art, Music, God, Soul)
"Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail."
- Martin Luther
"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Faith, Christ, Sin)
"Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?"
- Martin Luther
(Related: Faith, Church, Christ, First)
"Forgiveness is God's command."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Forgiveness, God)
"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Faith, Enemy, Reason)
"If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Devil, Old)
"The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Labor, Man, May, Will)
"The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else."
- Martin Luther
(Related: People, Nothing)
"The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Pleasure, Pride, World)
"The fewer the words, the better the prayer."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Prayer, Words)
"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Burden, Possession, Satan, Will, Wishes)
"Reason is the enemy of faith."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Faith, Enemy, Reason)
"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Marriage, Company)
"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Christian, Church, Prayer)
"Pray, and let God worry."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Worry)
"People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions."
- Martin Luther
(Related: People, Actions, First, Will)
"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Peace, Justice)
"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Peace, Truth)
"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Books, Promise)
"The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Bible, Christ)
"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Feelings, Conscience, Word)
"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Life, Father, People, God, Christian, Prayer, United)
"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."
- Martin Luther
(Related: War, Religion, Humanity, states)
"Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Heart)
"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."
- Martin Luther
"When schools flourish, all flourishes."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Schools)
"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."
- Martin Luther
"Nothing good ever comes of violence."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Nothing, Violence)
"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Art, Music, God)
"The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay."
- Martin Luther
(Related: God, Mankind, Mystery)
"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Music, Heart)
"Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Art, Music, God, Treasure, Word, World)
"I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford."
- Dorothy Malone
(Related: Martin)
"When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have."
- Joe Mantegna
(Related: Martin, Nothing)
"Dean Martin is one of my heroes."
- Joe Mantegna
(Related: Heroes, Martin)
"You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Idea, Occupation, Succeed, Will)
"When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records."
- Marc Maron
(Related: Martin)
"To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind."
- Agnes Martin
(Related: Life, Progress, Mind)
"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
- Agnes Martin
(Related: Art, Feelings)
"Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly."
- Agnes Martin
(Related: Experience, Truth, Artist, Concern, May)
"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection."
- Agnes Martin
(Related: Art, Beauty, Life, Awareness, Eye, Mind, Mystery, Perfection)
"Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life."
- Agnes Martin
(Related: Happiness, Life, Being)
"My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind."
- Agnes Martin
(Related: Mind)
"Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it."
- Alvin Martin
(Related: Names)
"Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally."
- Andrea Martin
"When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Canada, Voice)
"Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Awards)
"Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Quality, Now)
"It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things."
- Andrea Martin
"I'm sick of the treadmill."
- Andrea Martin
"I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Being, Benefits)
"I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Work, Artists, Makeup)
"I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Summer)
"I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Change, History, Character, Perception, Earth, Help, Play, states, United)
"And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Challenge)
"The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Truth, Children, College, Theatre)
"I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Love, Film, Theatre)
"But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Family, People, Country)
"For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Life, Love, Night, Routine)
"Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Being, Martin)
"Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Time, People, Deep, Space)
"I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Hope, Will)
"I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it."
- Andrea Martin
"I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Public)
"I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock."
- Andrea Martin
"Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels."
- Archer J. P. Martin
(Related: Work, Machine)
"If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all."
- Archer J. P. Martin
(Related: First)
"Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained."
- Archer J. P. Martin
(Related: Repetition, Result)
"Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game."
- Billy Martin
(Related: People)
"There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back."
- Billy Martin
(Related: Nothing, World)
"What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins."
- Billy Martin
(Related: Baseball, Being, Pride)
"I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love."
- Billy Martin
(Related: Love, Baseball)
"Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener."
- Billy Martin
(Related: Girls, Taste, Trees)
"I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest."
- Billy Martin
(Related: May, Yankee)
"Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant."
- Chris Martin
(Related: Fans, World)
"Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything."
- Chris Martin
(Related: Countries, Trade, Will)
"I don't mind not being cool."
- Chris Martin
(Related: Being, Mind)
"If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more."
- Chris Martin
(Related: People)
"If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt."
- Dean Martin
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
- Dean Martin
(Related: Lie)
"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."
- Dean Martin
(Related: Hollywood)
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day."
- Dean Martin
(Related: People, Day)
"I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up."
- Dean Martin
(Related: Right)
"I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day."
- Dean Martin
(Related: Day, Hate)
"I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'."
- Dean Martin
(Related: Kids, Words)
"My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal."
- Demetri Martin
"Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Computer)
"The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Time, Heart)
"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Invention)
"Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Fun)
"People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Car, People, Driving, Will)
"If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!"
- Demetri Martin
"If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Letters)
"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Birthday, Christmas, Want, Waste, Wrong)
"I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'"
- Demetri Martin
"I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'"
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Cause, Confusion, Foreigners)
"I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Love, Trust, Women, Cute, Name, Talking)
"I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'"
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Ability, Hell, Mail)
"I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Time, Songs)
"Another term for balloon is bad breath holder."
- Demetri Martin
"A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: People)
"A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive."
- Demetri Martin
"I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Sports, Now, Play)
"Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Saying)
"There's always been physical suffering in comedy."
- Don Martin
(Related: Comedy, Suffering)
"When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do."
- George Martin
(Related: Life)
"What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness."
- George Martin
(Related: War, Birds, Land, Living, Nothing, Trees, Trying, Waste)
"Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects."
- George Martin
(Related: Music, Time, Sea)
"Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really."
- George Martin
(Related: Dream, Butterflies, Film, Land, World)
"We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens."
- George Martin
(Related: Friends)
"I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along."
- George Martin
(Related: Time, People)
"He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant."
- George Martin
(Related: Father)
"Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think."
- George Martin
(Related: Idea, Artists, Fact, Film, First, United)
"And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe."
- George Martin
(Related: War, People, Europe, Repression, Years)
"I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more."
- Harvey Martin
(Related: Life, Abuse, Alcohol, Drugs, Now)
"I killed many a quarterback. I felt like I scored when I took their head off."
- Harvey Martin
"I'm not mean, just aggressive."
- Harvey Martin
"When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Society, People, Behavior, Ideals, Ugly)
"You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Right)
"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Society)
"We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Etiquette, Hiring, Job, Law, Letters, Man, Responsibility)
"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Class, Middle class)
"Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Education, Arguments, Children, Language, Parents, Quiet)
"Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Home, Work, People)
"It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Help)
"Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Love, Country, Liberals, Manners, Strangers)
"If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Libraries, Rest)
"Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Virtue, Hypocrisy, Sin)
"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Honesty, Privilege)
"Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Morality, Force)
"Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Morality, Force, Glory)
"Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Technology, People, Old)
"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Attention)
"When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post."
- Luther Martin
(Related: Man, Post)
"No matter what your religion, you should try to become a government program, for then you will have everlasting life."
- Lynn Martin
(Related: Government, Life, Religion, Will)
"There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words."
- Mary Martin
(Related: Communication, Words, World)
"The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this."
- Mary Martin
(Related: Work, Communication, Words)
"After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch."
- Mary Martin
"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes."
- Mary Martin
(Related: Habit, Thinking, Thoughtful, Wishes)
"Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio."
- Millicent Martin
"I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is."
- Millicent Martin
(Related: Baby, Being)
"I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Marriage, People, Act, Canada, Rights, Land, Law, Support, Today)
"The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Equality, People, Canada, Country)
"In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Equality, Society, Women, Canada, Discrimination, Effort, Rights, Open)
"The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Nation, Party, Will)
"The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Benefits, Now)
"If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Right)
"I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Canada, Iraq)
"Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Canada, Cities, Flying, Night, Stars)
"For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Years)
"Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Opportunity)
"At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Life, Time, Country, Destiny)
"As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride."
- Paul Martin
(Related: People, Canada, Influence, Pride, Want, World)
"The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Marriage, Court, Facts, Leaders, Religious, Right, Will)
"I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
- Paul Martin
(Related: People, Canada, Rights, Land, Law, Support)
"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing."
- Ricky Martin
(Related: America, Countries)
"The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!"
- Ricky Martin
(Related: Life, Community, Gay, Living, Talk, Writer)
"Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age."
- Robert Martin
(Related: Age, Learning, Responsibility)
"Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise."
- Robert Martin
(Related: Encouragement, Interest, Praise, Thinking)
"I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons."
- Robert Martin
(Related: Kids)
"Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch."
- Ross Martin
(Related: College, First, Genocide, Students)
"We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world."
- Ross Martin
(Related: Class, College, Day, Students, World)
"I want to grow into the best person I can be."
- Stephen Martin
(Related: Want)
"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Country, Wilderness, Will)
"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Money, Sex)
"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Hate, Woman)
"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Nothing, Pretty)
"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Business, Mistake)
"Love is a promise delivered already broken."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Love, Promise)
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Architecture, Music, Dancing, Talking)
"There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Woman)
"Well, excuuuuuse me!"
- Steve Martin
"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Art, Entertainment)
"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Day, Night)
"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Movies, Life)
"When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Work, Hobbies)
"What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Art, People, Comedy)
"The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Acting, Actor, First, Joy, Writing)
"Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Sex, Kissing, Man, Pretty, Talking)
"Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Business, Comedy, May, Pretty)
"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Funny, Chaos, Order)
"An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Apology, Dignity, Gentleman, Wrong)
"Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!"
- Steve Martin
(Related: Word)
"Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Love, Woman)
"Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man."
- Theodore Martin
(Related: Work, Life, Man)
"And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake."
- Walter Martin
(Related: History, Mistake, People, Church, Credibility, Sin)
"I am not an enemy of Adventism."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Enemy)
"I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Truth, People, Friend)
"However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man."
- Walter Martin
(Related: God, Bible, Cosmos, Man, Spiritual, Word)
"I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Saying)
"Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Christ, Conquest, Day)
"A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God."
- Walter Martin
(Related: God, Strength, Hardship, Key, Spiritual, Word)
"A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Truth, People, Devil)
"God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us."
- Walter Martin
(Related: God, Faith, Exercise, Will)
"The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Success, Soul, May, Medicine, Now)
"Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Men, Reason)
"You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them."
- Walter Martin
(Related: People, Now, Years)
"What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Doctrine, Houses, Information, Publishing, Questions)
"The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Nature, Power, Doctrine, Eternity, Trinity, Unity)
"Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Opinion)
"I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Sister, Thought, Character)
"The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you."
- Walter Martin
(Related: God, Army, Christ, Darkness, Living, Walking)
"What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Christian, Theology)
"I love doing what I do."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Love)
"You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Home, Love, Work, Thought, Day, Golf, Play, Rest)
"When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Money, People, Care, Giving)
"The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Home, Work, People, Care, Job, Problems)
"So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Being, Help)
"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: American, Public, Rapport)
"I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Feeling, Hurt, Will)
"I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Love, People, Job, Years)
"I have a studio at home, and do 3 hours a day that way."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Home, Day)
"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Business, Pretty)
"And then I did one called High Rollers and that was a lot of fun."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Fun)
"Radio is immediate."
- Wink Martindale
"The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Class)
"Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Help, Laws, May, Observation, Vice)
"Religion is a temper, not a pursuit."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Religion, Pursuit, Temper)
"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Education, Marriage, Women, Life, America, England, Training)
"There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Life, Effect, Land, Mind, Possession)
"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Immortality, Help)
"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Office, Responsibility, Teaching)
"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Act, Preparation, Today, Tomorrow)
"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Men, World)
"For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Work, Class, Europe, Kitchen)
"I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are."
- Harriet Martineau
"It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Nature, Knowledge, Human nature, Opinion, Welfare)
"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Power, Society, Civilization)
"But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?"
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Nature, Religion, Fact, State)
"Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Love, Men, Women)
"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Conscience, Fidelity, Modesty)
"A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Soul, Ideas)
"If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Love, America, Country, Earth, May)
"A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Soul, Ideas)
"The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest."
- James Martineau
(Related: Will)
"Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere."
- James Martineau
(Related: Music, Poetry, Religion, Language, Prayer)
"Grief is only the memory of widowed affections."
- James Martineau
(Related: Grief, Memory)
"Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'."
- James Martineau
(Related: God, Man)
"Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind."
- James Martineau
(Related: Religion, God, Belief, Mankind, Mind, Universe, Will)
"The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly."
- James Martineau
(Related: God, Christ, Man)
"All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost."
- James Martineau
(Related: History, Past, World)
"I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties."
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Respect)
"I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all."
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Hate)
"Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both."
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Work, People, Trying, Weekend)
"We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart."
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Life, Heart, Hardship)
"I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show."
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Idea, Awards, Ladies, Night)
"I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible."
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Love, Artist)
"Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!"
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Time, First, Rap)
"I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair."
- Angie Martinez
"I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night."
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Thought, Night, Right, Sound)
"I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station."
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Time, Job, Night, School, Summer)
"The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them."
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Work, People)
"Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered."
- Angie Martinez
(Related: Time, Friends)
"After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic."
- Angie Martinez
"I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it."
- Cliff Martinez
(Related: Age, Time, Wrong)
"I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did."
- Cliff Martinez
(Related: Diversity, Film)
"I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy."
- Cliff Martinez
(Related: Being, Country, Drugs, Years)
"Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Life, Dream, American, Fulfillment, Nation, Public)
"In America, all things are possible."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: America)
"Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Needs, State)
"Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Focus, Needs, Opposition, Support)
"It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Government, Help)
"I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Freedom, Right, Vote, Will)
"I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Vote, Want, Washington)
"From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Government, Time, Country, Freedom, National security, Stability, states, United)
"Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Life, Dream, America, American, Mind, Years)
"We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Society, Policy, Opportunity, Vision, American, Building, Focus, Needs)
"It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Education, Americans, Future)
"I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Car, Life, Accident, Boxing, Old, Years)
"I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: End, First)
"I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Woman)
"I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Nothing)
"I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Time, Truth, Dream, Want)
"I don't have goals in life."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Life, Goals)
"I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free."
- Olivier Martinez
"I always say I was born too late in the world, too old."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Old, World)
"But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Work)
"But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Movies, Hollywood, Old)
"Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Life, Energy, Friends, Want)
"I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Age, Actors, Disease)
"And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Genius, People, Actors)
"Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Work, Thought, English)
"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Act, Want)
"It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit."
- Olivier Martinez
"Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Tomorrow)
"The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: History, Movies, Time, First)
"The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Acting, Difference, Film)
"People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: People)
"Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Compromise, Fame, France, Want)
"My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Family, Father, Brothers, Years)
"If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Actor, Actors, Profession)
"It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Dreams, Imagination, Time, People, Vision, Want)
"I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Work, Family, Money, Being, Day, Friends)
"Imagination creates some big monsters."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Imagination)
"If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?"
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: English, Sense, Want)
"I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Actors)
"I'll always be a foreigner."
- Olivier Martinez
"I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Family, Paris)
"I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Family, Opportunity, Accident)
"I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Want)
"Love is based on imagination."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Imagination, Love)
"It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Love, Family)
"I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing."
- Pedro Martinez
(Related: Games, Mind)
"I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do."
- Pedro Martinez
(Related: People, Baseball, Fun, Play)
"I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me."
- Pedro Martinez
(Related: Health, God, Being, Listening)
"A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'"
- A. P. Martinich
(Related: Grammar, Philosophy)
"God primes the pump of obligation."
- A. P. Martinich
(Related: God, Obligation)
"I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do."
- Martina McBride
(Related: Life, God, Career, World)
"I find that putting my makeup on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show."
- Martina McBride
(Related: Makeup)
"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."
- Martina McBride
(Related: Music, Being, Country, Country music)
"I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place."
- Martina McBride
(Related: Love, Time, Family, Music, Career, Country, Country music, Now, Right)
"I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have."
- Martina McBride
(Related: Goal, Songs)
"A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want."
- Martina McBride
(Related: Work, Want)
"I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too."
- Martina McBride
(Related: Men, Women, Songs)
"I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal."
- Martina McBride
(Related: Family)
"I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now."
- Martina McBride
(Related: Difference, Longevity, Now)
"George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement."
- Paul McCartney
(Related: Martin)
"A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin."
- Maureen McCormick
(Related: Man, Martin, World)
"Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that."
- Roger McGuinn
(Related: Money, First, Martin)
"Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Irish)
"If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Government, Policy, Reason, Will)
"Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Class)
"Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Government, Decision, Ability, Being)
"Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Ireland, Party)
"That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: People, Question)
"The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Government)
"The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Car, Intelligence, Fact, Military)
"The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Party)
"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Peace, Mistake, Ireland)
"In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Death, Fact, Right)
"Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: State)
"I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of."
- Martin McGuinness
"Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Peace, Travel, Decision, Country, Opponents, Public, Responsibility)
"But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Leadership, Fact, Majority, Republicans, Support)
"I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool."
- Maria Menounos
(Related: People)
"We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show."
- Martin Milner
(Related: December, Russia, World)
"I was never a celebrity - just a working actor."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Actor, Celebrity)
"Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Work, Now, Television, Weekend)
"We also have 2 horses, but they're not allowed in the house."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Horses)
"Three days a week and I'm home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Home)
"There is no overt rivalry among our children."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Children, Rivalry)
"On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus."
- Martin Milner
"My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Wife, Children)
"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Hollywood)
"I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Love, Fishing, Talk)
"I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Complaints, Pretty)
"I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while."
- Martin Milner
"Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Home, Cities, Comfort, Road, Years)
"Actors really should be tramps."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Actors)
"My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Work, Character, Worry)
"I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Drama)
"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."
- Kel Mitchell
(Related: Comedy, Martin, Old, Research)
"You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Acting)
"It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Opportunity)
"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Americans)
"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Ability, Trouble)
"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Business, School)
"Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Funny, Now)
"If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Art, Work)
"To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Work, Day, Joy)
"It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Time, Day, Job, Remorse)
"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Pretty)
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Trouble)
"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Family)
"It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Dreams, People, Reality)
"Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Painting, Vengeance)
"I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Art, School)
"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Children)
"I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be."
- Martin Mull
"I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Art, Discovery, School, Sense)
"I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Movies, Time, Income, Television)
"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Artist, Question)
"I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Time, Money, Challenge, Painting, Trying, Want)
"A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you."
- Martin Mull
(Related: People, Saying)
"I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with."
- Martin Mull
"I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Art, Money, Fact, Profession, School)
"Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive."
- Mike Myers
(Related: Car, Martin)
"Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately."
- Graham Nash
(Related: Martin, Now)
"Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: People)
"Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Perception, Disability)
"You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Nothing, Past)
"Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost."
- Martina Navratilova
"The more people come out, the less it will be an issue."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: People, Will)
"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Victory, Nothing)
"The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst."
- Martina Navratilova
"The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Commitment, Difference)
"Tennis has given me soul."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Soul, Tennis)
"People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Sports, People, Girls, Sexuality, states)
"Just go out there and do what you have to do."
- Martina Navratilova
"Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Being, Environment, Gay, Recycling)
"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Job, Right)
"If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Money, Being, Quiet)
"I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: People, Career, Twilight)
"I think the key is for women not to set any limits."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Women, Key, Limits)
"I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Life, Leading)
"I just try to concentrate on concentrating."
- Martina Navratilova
"I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: People, Hope, Will)
"Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Press)
"Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist."
- Martin Niemoller
(Related: Trade)
"Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist."
- Martin Niemoller
"For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man."
- Martin Niemoller
(Related: God, Man)
"Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me."
- Martin Niemoller
"Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion."
- Conan O'Brien
(Related: Exhaustion, Gay, Martin)
"There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes."
- Evan Parker
(Related: History, Music, Character, Existence, Interest, Martin, Sound)
"What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism."
- Rand Paul
(Related: Society, Time, Courage, March, Martin, Racism)
"Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now."
- Simon Pegg
(Related: Friend, Martin, Now, Old, Years)
"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Parents, Schools, Today, World)
"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Work, Research, Training)
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Mathematics, Parents)
"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Being, Police, School)
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Work, Mother, Father, Company, Printing, School)
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Children, Parents, Russia, states, United)
"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Curriculum)
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Books, Numbers, Years)
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Class, Middle class, Parents)
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: War, Depression, Fortune, Years, Youth)
"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Sports, American, Americans, Being, Children, Play)
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Parents)
"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Travel, History, Science, Biography, Fiction, Mathematics)
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Work, Answers, Now, Students)
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Business, School)
"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Poverty, Russia)
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Parents, School, Teachers)
"There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Home, Books, Libraries, Public, Visit, Walking)
"Its super to play with Martina, and she has huge amounts of talent. We have a lot of fun."
- Mary Pierce
(Related: Talent, Fun, Play)
"Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice."
- Mark Pryor
(Related: Equality, Time, Courage, Compassion, Day, Democracy, Honor, Justice, Martin, Nation, Nonviolence)
"I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Work)
"At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Art, Building, Sculpture)
"I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Spirit)
"The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Work)
"The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Ecology)
"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Fire, Freedom)
"I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects."
- Martin Puryear
"I think of moving as a kind of saving grace."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Grace)
"Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Work, Idea, Accident, Chance)
"I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts."
- Martin Ritt
(Related: Talent, Respect)
"The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day."
- Waverley Lewis Root
(Related: Day, Destiny, Turkey)
"We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself."
- Martin Ryle
(Related: Boats)
"During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned."
- Martin Ryle
(Related: Experience, War, People, Development, Engineering, Physics, Understanding, Years)
"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
- Martin Ryle
(Related: Children)
"I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
- Martin Ryle
(Related: College)
"In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John."
- Martin Ryle
(Related: Son, Daughters)
"In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College."
- Martin Ryle
(Related: College, Physics, Trinity)
"In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy."
- Martin Ryle
(Related: Work, Astronomy, University)
"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes."
- Ken Salazar
(Related: Heroes, Martin)
"I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them."
- Fred Savage
(Related: Women, Film, Future, Martin)
"But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties."
- Hjalmar Schacht
(Related: Peace, War, People, Memory, Wounds)
"The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative."
- Robert Scheer
(Related: Conservative, Editors)
"Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream."
- Adam Schiff
(Related: Dream, Opportunity, Progress, America, Martin, Nation)
"Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: Martin, Talking)
"Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Martin, Writer)
"I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Funny, People, Martin, Moon, Play)
"Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Cinema, Now, Talk, World)
"I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Flying)
"I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself."
- Martin Scorsese
"What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: People, Heart, Destruction)
"There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard."
- Martin Scorsese
"I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Nothing)
"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Artists)
"I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Money, Financial, Rest, Support)
"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Budgets)
"It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Change, Violence, World)
"It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Family, Gods, Mythology)
"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: History, Love, Destruction)
"There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: War, People, Help, World, World war)
"Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Actor)
"I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Duty, Friends)
"I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest."
- Martin Scorsese
"I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Time, Kids, Running)
"I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Life)
"I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Peace, Mind)
"I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Time, People, Balance, Growing up, Right, Violence)
"I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Time)
"I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Now, Years)
"I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Name)
"Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: God, Idea, Flying)
"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Religion, Kindness)
"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Cinema)
"I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Love, Idea, Flies, May, Sense)
"And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: People, Compassion, Kindness, Tolerance)
"If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Open)
"I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times."
- Martin Scorsese
"I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time."
- Bob Seger
(Related: Time, Song)
"It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Values, Ideals, Pleasure, Support)
"It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: God, Church, Enemies, Living, Rules, Service)
"I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: God, Mother)
"When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Experience, Adulthood, Country, Humanity, Now)
"Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Faith, God, Church, Catholicism, Conscience)
"I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: God, Church, Beginning)
"No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Heart, Despair, May, Military, Running, states, United, Universe, World)
"We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Being, Conflict, Fighting, Measure, Poverty, states, United, Violence, World)
"On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Life, Politics, People, Democrats, Public, Trying)
"You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone."
- Martin Sheen
"My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: First, Justice)
"That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category."
- Martin Sheen
"The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Key, Nothing, Reality, Word)
"There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Actor, Living, President)
"What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Conservative, Culture, Republican, Responsibility)
"Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Humor, People, Golf, Sense, Years)
"We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Society)
"We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out."
- Martin Sheen
"War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Time, War, Wrong)
"I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: President)
"I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are."
- Martin Sheen
"We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Change, Washington, World)
"This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Vision, Being, Direction, Military, Understanding)
"And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: People, Culture, Focus, Now, Right, Self, Suffering, World)
"I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Goodness, Present)
"I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Truth, Being, Military, Nothing)
"I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Honesty, Virtue, Play)
"Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: People, Being, Golf, Word)
"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Expression)
"Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Future, Generations, Party)
"Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Golf, Play, Will)
"I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Office, President, states, United)
"I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: People, America, Information, World)
"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Government, Effect, Promise)
"I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other."
- Martin Sheen
"I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!"
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Age, College, Giving)
"I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Abortion, Reality, Right, Will, Woman)
"I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Country, Old, Will, Years)
"Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: War, Work, Iraq)
"I have a kind of objective luxury about my career."
- Martin Short
(Related: Career, Luxury)
"I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace."
- Martin Short
(Related: Family)
"I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life."
- Martin Short
(Related: Life, Loss)
"I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit."
- Martin Short
(Related: People, Now)
"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears."
- Martin Short
(Related: Death, Tears)
"I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations."
- Martin Short
(Related: Expectations, Fun, Hate)
"David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny."
- Martin Short
(Related: Funny, Film)
"Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence."
- Martin Short
(Related: Being, Confidence)
"All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done."
- Martin Short
"I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about."
- Martin Short
(Related: Life, Party, Stress)
"All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room."
- Martin Short
(Related: Trying)
"What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime."
- Martin Short
(Related: Martin)
"You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled."
- Martin Short
"I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny."
- Martin Short
(Related: Funny, Family)
"What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows."
- Martin Short
(Related: Character, Actor, Being)
"Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes."
- Martin Short
(Related: People, Jokes)
"Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied."
- Martin Short
(Related: Question)
"People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue."
- Martin Short
(Related: Father, People, Irish)
"One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife."
- Martin Short
"No one is any one thing."
- Martin Short
"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."
- Martin Short
(Related: Mother, Absurdity, Eccentricity)