Martus Stone Quotes & Sayings

The door opened, held by the butler, and Lord Montagu swept into the room, his presence overwhelming the space. She could swear even the flowers in their vases perked up and listed in his direction. Honest to Pete. — Angela Quarles

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. — Andre Malraux

Let's face it, you're not a spend the night kind of guy, and I'm not a one-night stand kind of girl. — K. Bromberg

All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land. — Kevin Plank

No doubt, some of the champions of local government hoped to preserve such unsavory local customs as slavery or the local rule of a small group of privileged men, but many of the defenders of local government argued honestly that the states presented the best hope of securing liberty. Liberty, in the eighteenth century, meant not simply liberty from some intrusive outside power. It meant the active exercise of control over one's life, the possession of power in one's own hands. It meant government small enough and close enough to home to be directly accountable and responsive. It meant self-government, not government handed over to some remote rulers. Strictly understood, the principle of local self-government meant a share of power more or less equal to everyone else's share of power, a citizenry more or less equal in wealth and status, not one dominated by one small group or another; that is to say, it meant democracy — Charles L. Mee Jr.

Are you wet for me, Mary? I think you are. I think you're covered with honey. — J.R. Ward

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor. — Alton Brown

I love America, and I love living here. — Hutch Harris

Whether I start or come off the bench makes no difference to me. My game has always been go as hard as I can as long as I can — John Havlicek

As more people are added to any group, there is an inexorable drift toward inflexibility. — Ed Catmull

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that. — Anne Lamott

Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box. — Cheryl James

There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.
Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.
Whenever it rains you will think of her. — Neil Gaiman

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. — Yusuf Islam