Martice Quotes & Sayings

I once had a mind of quicksand,
That dragged ideas into its depths,
Inhaling specks of sunlight,
Every time I drew a breath,
But the world thought me a hazard,
When every word I spoke, I meant,
So around me they put caution tape,
And filled me with cement. — Erin Hanson

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different. — Tadashi Yanai

I am just a guy who plays drums. — Bill Kreutzmann

Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out. — Kelly Osbourne

Critical discussions of Western colonialism and imperialism and of what the term postcolonialism could mean, require, and enable first became acceptable in literature and cultural studies departments in the United States some three decades ago. Yet it has been much harder to create such discussions of sciences and technologies. Especially resistant are those departments where the West's scientific rationality and technical expertise have long been lovingly explained and "served up" for use in corporate and nationalist policies: sociology, philosophy, economics, and international relations, as well as the natural sciences themselves. — Sandra G. Harding

Some doors we close in life are like fire escape doors. When we exit they close and we can't reopen the door from the other side. The purpose is to protect us from going back. — Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

A shapeless figure bent over him, he smelt the fresh leather of the revolver belt; but what insignia did the figure wear on the sleeves and shoulder straps of its uniform - and in whose name did it raise the dark pistol barrel?

A second, smashing blow hit him on the ear. Then all became quiet. There was the sea again with its sounds. A wave slowly lifted him up. It came from afar and travelled sedately on, a shrug of eternity. — Arthur Koestler

He said he thought I was about twenty. Which is still too young. But not running-from-the-law young. — Kirsten Reed

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one. — Kris Carr

The way to see the world was to see it drunk. Everything was created to be seen drunk. — Patricia Highsmith

I like talking about comic book process, and one of the things is that I have plans going ahead for years, and the plans constantly get thrown away and shifted. There's a difference between planning and what actually happens in life, and comics have a life of their own. — Ann Nocenti

Rudimental snare work is something I've always loved. — Neil Peart

Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought. — Jane Hirshfield

And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. — Charles Dickens

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between. — Kevin Spacey