Martens Shoes Quotes & Sayings

It's one thing to go into a fight knowing you'll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit. — Darren Shan

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time. — Hermann Hesse

No student should be encouraged
by anyone
to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing. — Alexandra Robbins

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended. — Jennifer Westfeldt

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually. — Joyce Meyer

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this. — Aeschylus

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. — Michael J. Fox

We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich. — Jo Brand

I grew up in the '90s, so I've definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens. — Devin Kelley

The only way to think clearly is to know that you can't change someone else but you can change you. — Anonymous

Nothing like a soulful glance under the noses of the saints! — Victor Hugo

Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition. — Ai Weiwei

Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader. — Charles Stross

She would have her ship and he would have his city. — Leigh Bardugo

My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace. — Jennie Finch

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions. — Sarah Kane

So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing. — Joshua Bell