Colonel Martin Quotes & Sayings

Humility Preceeds Glory — Paul Gitwaza

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman. — Bunker Roy

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed. — Elia Kazan

Know, Goodwife, that Faerie is shaped by storytellers. Their fantasies, their dreams give my realm life. We were dying, all of us, from the smallest nixie to highborn sidhe, for want of a storyteller. — Eugie Foster

Precariousness and precarity are intersecting concepts. Lives are by definition precarious: they can be expunged at will or by accident; their persistence is in no sense guaranteed — Judith Butler

It's when you are down that you learn about your faults. — Claude McKay

Whoa." Adrian leapt up and rushed to Jill's side. "You need to let this go. What, are you going to start a fight with some girl?"
Reed turned his glare on Adrian. "Stay out of this."
"The hell I will! You're crazy."
If anyone had asked me to make up a list of people most likely to risk a fight in defense of a lady's honor, Adrian Ivashkov would have been low on that list. Yet there he stood, face hard and hand sitting protectively on Jill's shoulder. I was in awe. And impressed. — Richelle Mead

I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well. — Janeane Garofalo

I have written this because it may have escaped the notice of many who have admired her [Marie Tempest] brilliant performances that they are due not only to her natural gifts ... but to patience, assiduity, industry and discipline. Without these it is impossible to excel in any of the arts. — W. Somerset Maugham

Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf. — Charles Dickens

What else can you tell me?" Dad stares at me. "What have you learned while you were awake?"
I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn't determine whether you get it or not, that "no" might not be enough, that life isn't fair, that my parents can't save me, that maybe no one can. "Nothing much," I mutter. — Beth Revis

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies. — Clive Sinclair

Josie spoke up as well. "If it's all the same to you, Colonel, I'd feel safer with you." Keegan looked surprised. She'd caught the Colonel that Josie had directed toward Kenslir. — C.E. Martin

you are not dead, but you are not alive. — Laurie Halse Anderson

His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard.
I wish he was mine, he's really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord. — J.K. Rowling

I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them. — Tom Morello

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education. — Nelson Mandela