Ed Martin Quotes
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.
The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.
I still don't feel whatever change you're supposed to feel when your name goes up above the title.
Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.
If there are threats to the United States, then I would of course go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of U.S. military ground force.
Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.
While praying I passed into a state of entrancement, and in that state I saw the angel and the plates.
The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.
He who can traverse the pit of darkness will emerge a stronger, more compassionate person.
In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch."
We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.
Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation or a sermon.
Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation.
