Jarmond Martin Quotes & Sayings

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing. — Leslie Cockburn

Aspirations after the holy,
the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment. — Maria Jane McIntosh

Privacy,is what you shut your mouth about,Denial is what you shut your eyes against. — Karin Lowachee

Her sense of humor went south about a minute after I tied her up. — Peter Straub

None of us grew but the business. — William Gaddis

...maybe strength in the 21st century isn't about dominance....it's about the capacity to evoke....the ability to spark the enduring bonds of shared values, intrinsic motivation, and mutually committed perseverance. It is, in short, not the power merely to command, subordinate, demean, insult - and then crow about it with impunity. It's the power to inspire, animate, infuse, spark, evoke - and then connect, link, and collaborate, to be a force multiplier. — Umair Haque

Keep track of your soul, Madison. Never compromise. Or you'll live the rest of your life regretting it--until it consumes you. — B.J. Kurtz

Love me, and tell me so sometimes. — Mary Abigail Dodge

People don't want to see wrinkles, because if they see wrinkles in actors then they have to face that they have wrinkles, too. They'd rather see perfection up there. And so then you get rocket scientists who are 22 years old. — Stephanie Zimbalist

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. — Seneca.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
[Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] — Cormac McCarthy

So large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness. — Catharine Beecher

(An) Analogy has been drawn between the metaphysical experience of prayer and an ordinary human friendship. This may progress from initial civility, through engagement in common business, to conversations of mutual interest punctuated with companionable silences; after that meetings may become occasions for sudden outbursts of passionate conviction or declarations of love. — Adrian House

Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two. — R. Buckminster Fuller