Ed Martin Quotes
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it, than that of the man in the street.
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.
America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.
I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.
It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.
I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.
I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.
Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children
If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.
A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?
Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.
If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.
I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.
I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.
Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars.
And Christ says of that which is blessed, which is offered, received, eaten and drunk: This is My body; this is My blood.
A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.
High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.
And we have got to go back - I will tell you what we have got to do. We have got to go back to the small disciplines that really make a difference in defining ourselves as a profession. And we will.
You know, we live here in America and sometimes don't understand the realities of geography and demographics in Eastern Europe.
Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.
Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."
