Marlin Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!' — Marlin K. Jensen

Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system. — Marlin Stutzman

We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good. — Sterling Marlin

The mentality in Washington is, 'Look what our government - what our government can do for the American people.' We've got to get away from that mentality, and realize it's too expensive. We can't afford it. — Marlin Stutzman

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating. — Randal Marlin

We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded. — Randal Marlin

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example. — Randal Marlin

The heavy rain dripped off his thick leather hat and sloshed on the dry hard ground. To someone with a soul, it might have been peaceful, pretty, even to watch the drops bounce and form graceful puddles before they disappeared into the cracks in the Earth.

Daniel Marlin merely cursed. He only saw the weather as another delay before they could rescue their brother from jail. He turned the horse back into the copse of trees, hating to admit defeat. — Grace Willows

At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend. — Marlin K. Jensen

Getting canned from a non-paying job is a lot like getting dumped by a girl you're not even dating. — Marlin Bressi

Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths... — Mike Bond

If we truly want to be tools in the hands of our Heavenly Father in bringing to pass His eternal purposes, we need only to be a friend. — Marlin K. Jensen

Okay, it's like this. You wake up, you watch TV, and you get in the car and you listen to the radio. You go to your little job or your little school, but you're not going to hear about that on the 6:00 news, since guess what. Nothing is really happening. You read the paper, or if you're into that sort of thing you read a book, which is just the same as watching only even more boring. You watch TV all night, or maybe you go out so you can watch a movie, and maybe you'll get a phone call so you can tell your friends what you've been watching. And you know, it's got so bad that I've started to notice, the people on TV? Inside the TV? Half the time they're watching TV. Or if you've got some romance in a movie? What to they do but go to a movie? All those people, Marlin," he invited the interviewer in with a nod. "What are they watching?"
After an awkward silence, Marlin filled in, "You tell us, Kevin."
"People like me. — Lionel Shriver

Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light. — Marlin K. Jensen

Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made. — Randal Marlin

We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year. — Sterling Marlin

In Ecuador the Indian mate was too poor to buy Polaroid glasses but he saw the caudal fins of marlin long before my perfect eyes noticed anything. Benny played pool as if the cue stick emerged from his body. Not my alcohol & geometry. She was an asshole and I couldn't have loved her at gunpoint. — Jim Harrison

Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press. — Randal Marlin

Have a day when you wish you could vomit words, but can only dry heave. — Brick Marlin

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed. — Marlin Fitzwater

Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work. — Coo Coo Marlin

I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate. — Sterling Marlin

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility. — Randal Marlin

The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable for people to engage in it. — Randal Marlin

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. — Randal Marlin

I think that's one thing that, you know, we all need to remember is that, you know, politics, even though it's been really rough, is that we are all human beings first. And that it is more important for us to have civil dialogue. And you know what? I'm conservative, but I'm not mad about it. — Marlin Stutzman

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II. — Marlin Fitzwater

I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder. — George Strait

Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry. — Jennifer Rardin

It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. — Randal Marlin

It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath. — Sterling Marlin

The high ground is defensible. — Ken Marlin

I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard. — Sterling Marlin

I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give. — Marlin K. Jensen

Her whisper was, Lyman thought, like a Marlin ripping all the line out of a fishing rod. — Joe Coomer

Most families around town only had a bottle of aspirin in their medicine cabinets. If you had the flu, you took an aspirin. If you had a toothache, you took an aspirin. If you were bitten by a snake, you took an aspirin. If you developed kidney problems from taking too much aspirin, you took an aspirin. You wouldn't even think of going to the emergency room unless your leg was hanging by a thread. And even then you might wait a while. — Marlin Bressi

Heaven is a place nearby, so there's no need to say goodbye. — Lene Marlin

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in. — Sterling Marlin

I feel very vulnerable when it has to do with family. Having lost my mom, who I was so extremely close to, now I feel so vulnerable when somebody gets sick or hurt. I become a complete wreck until they're well. Even if it's a cold! I compare myself to Marlin in Finding Nemo. — Nancy O'Dell

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. — J.G. Ballard

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions. — Randal Marlin

The White House is a strange place. — Marlin Fitzwater

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers. — Randal Marlin

Dear Ellen,
"Just keep swimming."
Recognize that quote, Ellen? It's what Dory says to Marlin in Finding Nemo.
"Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming."
I'm not a huge fan of cartoons, but I'll give you props for that one. I like cartoons that can make you laughter, but also make you feel something. After today, think that's my favorite cartoon. Because I've been feeling like drowning lately, and sometimes people need a reminder that they just need to keep swimming. — Colleen Hoover

To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action. — Randal Marlin

The specific media my change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia. — Randal Marlin

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy. — Mark Ruffalo

The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start. — Sterling Marlin

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good. — Randal Marlin

After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad. — Sterling Marlin

Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home. If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family. I think one of life's most satisfying accomplishments for my wife and me is to have lived long enough to see our children become good friends. — Marlin K. Jensen

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others. — Randal Marlin

He secretly thinks he looks like Marlon Brando, but take a good look a young Marlin Perkins is more like it! Maybe that's what he sees in Annette Kelper - he's an animal lover. — David Sedaris

Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing left to learn what challenges remain. — Matt Marlin

It's good way to relax when I come home from the road. When you're out there on the tractor there's nobody to bother you. — Sterling Marlin

Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits. — Marlin Stutzman

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader. — Randal Marlin

I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor. — Marlin Stutzman

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds. — Merlin Olsen

When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find a vast array of different examples throughout history. — Randal Marlin

I wish you'd wash your mind-ears out! Organazoomers. They're how you travel inside a soultree. Don't you know anything? — Katherine Roberts

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie. — Randal Marlin

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness. — Marlin Fitzwater

There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did. — Lene Marlin

Nothing is more inspiring in today's world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying each other's friendship year in and year out as they experience together the blessings and trials of mortality. — Marlin K. Jensen

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated. — Randal Marlin

The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised. — Randal Marlin

I got run over by a bug-eyed dummy, I guess. — Sterling Marlin

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues. — Jim Fowler

If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve. — Randal Marlin

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight. — Jonathan Winters

You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points. — Sterling Marlin

We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets. — Marlin Stutzman

Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names. — Randal Marlin

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people. — Marlin Stutzman

The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it. — Sterling Marlin

Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality. — Randal Marlin

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support. — Randal Marlin

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity. — Randal Marlin

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power. — Randal Marlin

You don't ever have to apologize for feeling, Marlin. Life's not worth living if we don't feel intensely. — Amanda Richardson

My main concern while in New York wasn't becoming a hot shot. I was more concerned with staying alive, and that took all the pleasure out of the experience. I didn't know where to find a grocery store so I subsisted on hot dogs, peanuts and whatever else I could buy from a street vendor. I didn't know how to hail a cab (apparently there's an art to it). I stood on the edge of the sidewalk and waved my arms around but no one stopped, so I limited my entire universe to however far I could walk and I never walked too far because I was afraid I'd get lost and never find my way back home again. Perhaps that's why there are so many homeless people in New York; maybe they're not really lost, maybe some of them have homes but they just don't know how to get there. — Marlin Bressi

A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda like the Indy car guys run. He fitted it up and it felt real good, so we're going to try to run it. — Sterling Marlin

Discipline is critical to proper preparation. — Ken Marlin

There are some styles I do not want to take credit for and usually these hairstyles are on the heads of customers who are only too happy to spread the word. — Marlin Bressi

Staying safely at your home port is narrow thinking. — Ken Marlin

I'm the king of crime. I'm the criminal. I'm the juvenile delinquent, the rebel, the outcast, the unwanted. I'm everything that everybody looks down on and is standing on, spitting on, cursing and calling names, and hating, buying and selling all the different things. — Marlin Marynick

Some things just scrape my spine! — Brick Marlin

Spooner noticed another, smaller Marine Corps tattoo encircling Marlin's ankle: Semper Fi Forever. Everywhere he went these days, Spponer witnessed America's crying need for more copy editors. — Pete Dexter

Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship. — Marlin K. Jensen

Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers. — Marlin Fitzwater

That's about the 1,000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up. — Sterling Marlin