Ed Martin Quotes
Hotel Conundrum: The continental breakfast. What is it that makes continents so shitty at providing an adequate breakfast?
Fact: The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.
Love may be on the horizon, but beware something wicked this way comes.
…When you’ve know me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.”“Even the lies?”“Especially the lies. Lord Petyr…
Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.
People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments
If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!’ It will be about how the whole thing stands up.
The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had.
Make sure you keep an inner state of flexibility, and are not tightly bound to your visions.
Your life has a natural motion. Surrendering reveals how flowing this life could be.
A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey
We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains
Jo's whimper rose slightly but the scream she yearned for wouldn't materialise. Instead, as she looked at her hand, she began to make a gurgling, gagging noise, more animal than human.
Sometimes it's hard for me to understand that people can believe in me, that they can trust that I'll be anything more than the sum of the skeletons in my closet. But I can be. And I am.
Anyone can get their hands on a fortune but to become successful one must work intelligent and hard.”- EMW
Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
I part my lips, but no words come out. I want to cry. Want to beg. Want to scream. But mostly, I want to hold him until I know he’s going to be okay. Then I want him to hold me until I’m okay, too.
When I'm sad I tend to slide in to day dream and sing along whatever I hear on the radio.
Everything we encounter can have a positive influence in shaping our life when we adopt a lens of Gratitude.
It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.
Happiness and achieving our dreams is a matter of believing it is possible and having a positive frame of mind.
Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past.
The journey of growth, search for the secret has always been within, the simpler we make it, the better it gets.
Self awareness is only powerful when knowledge is understood and applied, only then can it manifest into true wisdom!
Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.
Robots get to see the worst of the human condition on a daily basis. Good thing they don’t have feelings.
We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.
But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it as unnecessary, is demanding that thought annihilate itself.
Only in thoughtful dialogue with what it says can this fragment of thinking be translated. However, thinking is poetizing, and indeed more than one kind of poetizing, more than poetry and song.
Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.
Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?
We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.
Circus can't just be beautiful. It has to be weird. It has to be frightening.
The easy truth is as much a lie as any.
...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.
There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.