Ed Martin Quotes

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

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Being on Twitter is like having a fern.

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.

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

Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.

No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way.

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman.

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

Thierry Henry my grandchildren, hopefully my great grandchildren gonna have to hear about him because is super, absolutely super, top guy, top player

Giggs drops deep into that Sheringham position where he can turn and ride defenders.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

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.

100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

Products are produced in the factory; brands are produced in our minds.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.