Martyne Woods Quotes & Sayings

Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future. — Don DeLillo

From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems. — Jerry Lewis

I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know. — Lyle Lovett

Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers — Juan Somavia

You get paid consistent with your ability to solve problems. — Ron Willingham

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. — Brian Aldiss

Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you? — Rumi

I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it.
Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:
Don't kick against the pricks,
Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your game
And died, there's nothing in it. — Ezra Pound

A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes. — Eli Ashpence

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society,
each of us needs to understand himself and understand others,
take care of others and be taken care of himself. — Haniel Long

Lena: Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have a power.
Ethan: Maybe you just have to fall for one. — Kami Garcia

He often repeated something Father Abrahan said to him once, how faith is ever young, how faith, unlike the rest of us, does not age. — Yann Martel

You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you. — Stephen Hawking

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress. — Cherie Lunghi