Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist...
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH I hate to be categorized.
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH 'High Concept' means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, su...
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spil...
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century...
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH Wolves Eat Dogs,
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and ...
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power o...
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of...
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death...
MARTIN Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul gene...
MARTIN A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
MARTIN It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that ...
MARTIN SELIGMAN Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of t...
MARTIN SCORSESE Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the soc...
MARTIN FILLER We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an...
MARTIN CHALFIE I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God'...
MARTIN LUTHER When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
MARTIN SCORSESE Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this:...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Only a god can save us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of cor...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former -...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Language is the house of the truth of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our syst...
MARTIN SCORSESE My idea of a good night out is staying in.
MARTIN FREEMAN I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
STEVE MARTIN I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
STEVE MARTIN When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ...
STEVE MARTIN I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
STEVE MARTIN I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easi...
STEVE MARTIN What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, bec...
STEVE MARTIN Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTIN I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
STEVE MARTIN What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They ca...
STEVE MARTIN I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the ...
STEVE MARTIN Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in...
STEVE MARTIN I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...
STEVE MARTIN I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
STEVE MARTIN It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN Nothing good ever comes of violence.
MARTIN LUTHER What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in th...
WALTER MARTIN Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gif...
WALTER MARTIN I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremel...
WALTER MARTIN I am not an enemy of Adventism.
WALTER MARTIN The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
WALTER MARTIN Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to ...
WALTER MARTIN I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
WALTER MARTIN Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe...
WALTER MARTIN A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
WALTER MARTIN You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have rea...
WALTER MARTIN The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separat...
WALTER MARTIN A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of Go...
WALTER MARTIN Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same...
DEMETRI MARTIN The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
DEMETRI MARTIN You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
STEVE MARTIN And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindnes...
MARTIN SCORSESE Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to ...
MARTIN ZWEIG Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
MARTIN SCORSESE My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big...
CATHERINE MARTIN God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There sh...
MARTIN O'MALLEY For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than...
MARTIN LUTHER The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
MARTIN LUTHER 'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut...
MARTIN VILLENEUVE Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w...
MARTIN PARR Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fictio...
MARTIN AMIS I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
DEMETRI MARTIN Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day,...
MARTIN CHEMNITZ I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can...
MARTIN SELIGMAN Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't ...
MARTIN LUTHER If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
MARTIN LUTHER The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it...
MARTIN LUTHER I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in expl...
MARTIN LUTHER When schools flourish, all flourishes.
MARTIN LUTHER Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
MARTIN LUTHER First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each...
MARTIN LUTHER The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
MARTIN LUTHER My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick a...
MARTIN LUTHER I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
MARTIN LUTHER I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
MARTIN LUTHER Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justic...
MARTIN LUTHER People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous ...
MARTIN LUTHER Forgiveness is God's command.
MARTIN LUTHER Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
MARTIN LUTHER Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have...
MARTIN JACQUES All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
MARTIN MCDONAGH In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work i...
MARTIN PARR I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
MARTIN SCORSESE In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t...
MARTIN JACQUES The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was b...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to...
MARTIN MCDONAGH And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is...
MARTIN SELIGMAN We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long ...
MARTIN REES For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose an...
MARTIN BASHIR I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution...
MARTIN LUTHER Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the...
MARTIN PARR Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c...
GEORGE MARTIN The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more l...
MARTIN SELIGMAN Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government wha...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British go...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the ...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being rel...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS We've always been able to get consistent work habits out of our kids. Not just during the year, but ...
AL MARTIN That was some violent, violent weather. We're sitting in the clubhouse watching on TV and wondering,...
AL MARTIN That was some violent, violent weather,
AL MARTIN [In his column] FEMA Sends Katrina Survivors to American Gulag; Municipal Bond Holders at Risk, ... ...
AL MARTIN I thought we played a very solid game on both sides of the ball. Getting those first two touchdowns ...
AL MARTIN The 2006 budget crisis is looming, provoked by the fiscal policies of the Bush Cheney Regime, ... Th...
AL MARTIN Pat's comments created a so-called 'flight to quality' bid in both the September long bonds and the ...
AL MARTIN And, I really admire them. I guess we try to show them as much appreciation as possible.
AL MARTIN I thought we set an early tone with our play on defense. Highland has some inexperience up front and...
AL MARTIN We hung on. We knew coming here (Harrisburg) was flying high. We expected a tough game.
AL MARTIN I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining ...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that awa...
MARTIN COMPSTON A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sti...
DEMETRI MARTIN I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra...
CHRIS MARTIN I did some modeling here and there but nothing really big. There was a time when I simply bummed aro...
COCO MARTIN Generally, a rising trend in rates is bearish for stocks; a falling trend is bullish.
MARTIN ZWEIG One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait...
MARTIN ZWEIG Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so somet...
DEMETRI MARTIN Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into ...
MARTIN LANDAU It is Cameron's cabinet of millionaires who are the real spongers given free rein to live out th...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid ...
CHRIS MARTIN Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets ...
MARTIN MULL 'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a differe...
JUDITH MARTIN Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate t...
MARTIN REES Providing trails enhances the quality of life in the community and are a great asset to have. They p...
ALAN MARTIN It does put a doctor or health-care clinic in a more vulnerable position. This was an important prov...
ALAN MARTIN The state has reviewed the evidence and we are not aware at this time of there being any evidence to...
ALAN MARTIN The cost will be borne by the bankruptcy estate. It is not completely clear how broad the scope will...
ALAN MARTIN I think there is a real risk.
ALAN MARTIN That is huge for affluent high earners who have a lot of debt.
ALAN MARTIN I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet...
MARTIN CLUNES We spent a few days up Ben Nevis, which is the biggest mountain in the U.K., and there was one day w...
MARTIN HENDERSON If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'
MARTIN DONOVAN I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them o...
STEVE MARTIN I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'Th...
STEVE MARTIN Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!.
STEVE MARTIN Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.
MARTIN VILLENEUVE There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marr...
MARTIN LUTHER I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outsi...
DEMETRI MARTIN It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real...
DEMETRI MARTIN I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work a...
DEMETRI MARTIN I never set out to do a sketch show.
DEMETRI MARTIN I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain so...
DEMETRI MARTIN I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' &#...
DEMETRI MARTIN I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you ...
DEMETRI MARTIN The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
DEMETRI MARTIN Let no man's deathbed be a futon.
DEMETRI MARTIN If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
DEMETRI MARTIN I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because ...
DEMETRI MARTIN If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was...
DEMETRI MARTIN I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to he...
DEMETRI MARTIN The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
MARTIN LUTHER The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and m...
MARTIN SELIGMAN Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers m...
JUDITH MARTIN All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
MARTIN LUTHER Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as co...
CHRIS MARTIN Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
MARTIN LUTHER Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even thoug...
MARTIN LUTHER Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
MARTIN LUTHER You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star
MARTIN AMIS I am a novelist,
MARTIN AMIS I hire tea by the tea bag.
MARTIN AMIS Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn
MARTIN AMIS What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is w...
MARTIN NIEM Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct sugges...
MARTIN LUTHER To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who creat...
MARTIN SUAREZ To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life ...
MARTIN LUTHER If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universit...
JUDITH MARTIN