Ed Martin Quotes

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.

Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

I think it's cool when an ex-girlfriend becomes an XL girlfriend.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed

If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.

What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

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.

Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

I live a very low-key life.

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

I paint with my back to the world

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

The devil doesn't stay where there is music.

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.

Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.

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.

To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes.

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.