Ed Martin Quotes

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.

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

I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

Being is an issue for one.

All the basic information should be in the object itself.

You have to keep moving forward

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

Laughter is poison to fear.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

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.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them.

My worry is that Donald Trump may inspire copycats, also in Europe. That's why I hope Hillary Clinton wins.

If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going to be a highly problematic occurrence in a democracy.

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.

I need to develop some patience - immediately.

A world without war is not in the cards.

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.

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.