Ed Martin Quotes

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.

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.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

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.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.

The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

The biggest thing I have learned is you can't take anything for granted. You have to work as hard as you can every night, regardless.

On every level I have played I've heard, 'Am I going to perform or not because of my size?' I think I have proved to people I can perform regardless of how big I am.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars

All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

Parades are man's attempt to make traffic exciting.

We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

I learned this summer that peeing in the pool and peeing INTO the pool are very different things. Location, Location, Location.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.

I think cats would have an even worse attitude if they found out how stupid their names were.

I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

When I am holding a water balloon, so many things look so unnecessarily dry.

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

I love giving the golden shower. I've done it before in the shower. It's like so sexy, you know, the temperature of your body and the shower water is very different.

Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean?

I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.

It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters