Ed Martin Quotes

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

I normally don't eat junk food.

Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.

More will mean worse.

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

Never underestimate the power of the mind, the importance of love and faith, and never stop dreaming.

1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

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.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is measured. It's uncontroversial. It's going up. We know that has a tendency to warm the atmosphere and we should be worried about that.

The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.

Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.

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.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.

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.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.

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.

The key word in profiteering is profit.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.