Ed Martin Quotes

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark

Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings in their thatness and whatness.

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

A statement of truth, and that is:Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight.-The Old Bear, A Game of Thrones

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

My purpose is: What Lord? Where Lord? When Lord? Yes Lord!

You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.

You put a new heart in Emma a long time ago, it just wasn’t the kind you were thinking of.” He laughed to himself. “Hope is an amazing thing. I saw it in Emma, saw it with my own eyes.

Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.

Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.

Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.

Nature doesn’t need knowledge, because nature is knowledge, knowledge manifest.

[R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest.

Never judge someone by their relatives.

A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to self-being across the abyss of dread of the universe.

Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true.

Extra-marital affairs become things of legend… and often the undoing of legends… and mere mortals.

Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don’t love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.

Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.

There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.

Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.

When we make the decisions to be and stay in love, we should also make a decision and commitment to be supportive.

Some people think that it’s okay to be downright nasty to people they love. It is not okay. Nasty is never called for, and it’s certainly not sweet, useful, nor positive.

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak woman, too.

I think we need to develop a powerful dose of tolerance to understand each other’s humanness. None of us is perfect.

Without trust, our relationships lack an essential ingredient for emotional intimacy. We need to be able to totally trust our partner with our deepest thoughts, dreams, fears, and secrets.

Some people believe that if they yell and scream, others will get the point of just how serious they are. For me, all I get is the point of just how out of control that someone is.

Make the best of the time you have left, live like there is no tomorrow.

A key to the brighter future is to reassess goals, priorities and do best to make things happen.

She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

...creative output depends on creative input.

Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.''Girls don't shave', Arya said.'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, " he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.