Martinie Martinez Quotes & Sayings

Normally, we don't consider the audience in the genius equation. We assume that they are merely the passive recipients of the gifts that the genius bestows. They are much more than that, though. They are the appreciators of genius, and as art critic Clive Bell said, "The essential characteristic of a highly civilized society is not that it is creative but that it is appreciative." By that measure, Vienna was the most highly civilized society to grace the planet. Mozart — Eric Weiner

As good as Miami is, we'd rather go to Miami. — Luol Deng

Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost and can never recover. We do not remember childhood
we imagine it. We search for it, in vain, through layers of obscuring dust, and recover some bedraggled shreds of what we think it was. And all the while the inhabitants of this world are among us, like aborigines, like Minoans, people from elsewhere safe in their own time-capsule. — Penelope Lively

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you. — Ouida

Is not absence death to those who love? — Alexander Pope

Nick advanced slowly and she backed away. Not out of fear, but out of excitement at the heat in his eyes. She stopped when her back hit the wall and, a second later, Nick's hands slapped against the wall on either side of her head.

His head moved down as her eyelids drifted closed. Her head fell back, tipped against the wall. She expected one of his bone-melting kisses, but he stopped just before fitting his mouth to hers. She could feel his hot breath washing over her face.

"Hello, gorgeous," he whispered.

Charity smiled without opening her eyes. "Hello," she whispered back.

"Did you miss me?"

Every cell in her body had missed him. "You have no idea."

Nick leaned in, pressing his entire body against hers. "Oh yeah," he said softly. "I have an idea. — Lisa Marie Rice

A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger. — Bryce Courtenay

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone. — Thomas Paine

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world, — Damon Lindelof

There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide? — Rush Limbaugh

Love is the life of friendship. — James Howell

True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible. — David Sedaris

My unruly hair used to feel like an extension of my personality...full of life and bucking all attempts to be controlled."
Hybrid Angel (Part 1) — Nickie Williams