Ed Martin Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

The only game. The game of thrones.

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

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

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

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

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

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.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

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.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

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.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

I just want to leave a committed life behind.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

Intelligence is derived from two words

The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.” “Very restful, isn’t it?” “Well,” said Arya, “not the way I do it.

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

I’ve been to the Mountaintop

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.