Ed Martin Quotes

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce.

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.

The only game. The game of thrones.

There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Always verify quotations!

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.

The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.