Top 100 Marin's Quotes
#1. As someone who never followed rules, as someone who did everything she could to avoid them, I was done living by Marin's law. I needed Brent now. I would have him back. And soon.
Abigail Baker
#2. Okay, our next stop is the hardware store." Marin's lips curved into a hint of a smile. "Yippee. Axes, duct tape, lamp oil, and a shovel, here we come." "It's disturbing how quickly you came up with that shopping list." And that made her grin outright. ~*~
Kate Baray
#3. What do you mean? What present? And why my trunk?" Anton sure had a lot of questions, but at least he drove a little faster.
"I needed to transport him back to Marin's house, and your car was unlocked."
"It most certainly was not, you Battle-Fae-Bastard.
Tracey Clark
#4. That's what it means to be in love, Marin. It means doing everything in your power to ensure that the one you love lives to see another day, because the world would be that much darker without them.
Aida Jacobs
#5. Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.
John Marin
#6. Everyone is operating and running their lives at their current level of conscious awareness.
Carlos Marin
#7. We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!
Cheech Marin
#8. I have a really hard time watching gory stuff and horror movies. I have said no to some horror movie things. I wouldn't rule it out; I could probably be convinced to do one. But sometimes, I just get ill.
Marin Ireland
#9. 5 Fieldworker life expectancy: 49 years. Antonio Velasco, M.D., Farm Workers in the 1990s. Forty-nine is akin to Somalia (United Nations report) and thirty years less than in the U.S. (CIA World Factbook, 2008). Camels and catfish live longer.
David Marin
#10. Selfies became too big. The selfie photos are not good. Fans ask me for a selfie, and I say, 'Let's just do a photo.' I'm not anti-selfie, but I like a classic photograph.
Marin Cilic
#11. My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork.
Cheech Marin
#13. Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.
Marin Hinkle
#14. It is a profound mistake to think that every thing has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.
Antoine-Marin Lemierre
#15. I am honored to be both an active surrogate and a member of the RNC's Hispanic advisory council. The national effort to work seamlessly with our state parties has improved our landscape and chances with Latino voters, not just in San Diego but across the country.
Rosario Marin
#16. The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married.
Jessie Burton
#17. She felt like the loser kid the teacher made everyone play with at recess.
-Hanna Marin
Sara Shepard
#18. This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis.
Marin Cilic
#19. What are my thoughts on this whole ordeal?" she repeated, pausing to contemplate. And then she thought of the perfect answer. "Ali didn't manage to kill us," she said. "She only made us stronger.
Sara Shepard
#20. I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it.
Claire Coffee
#21. The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself be so completely humiliated as not being able to make a move looks rather undeserved.
Mihail Marin
#22. Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
Cheech Marin
#23. I want to say to all the young women out there, as I say to all young people: believe in yourselves, follow your passion and never give up, because you will create a future filled with possibility.
Marin Alsop
#24. To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.
Cheech Marin
#25. The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury.
Gary Snyder
#26. My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.
Cheech Marin
#27. Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.
Terry Teachout
#28. I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.
Garth Brooks
#29. I drive an S80 Volvo; it's one of those real flashy cars. No, I just like it because I like a nice, cush ride; the Volvo is really cush, and it's powerful and fast.
Cheech Marin
#30. It's tough not to keep thinking of the past, but you have to look ahead. Because the stuff in front of you is where you can make a difference and help the most.
Marin Thomas
#31. Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year.
Cheech Marin
#32. I've been really lucky because when I go out to L.A. it's for a job, not to look for a job. That's the way I like L.A. most - when I already have a job.
Marin Ireland
#33. To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.
Cheech Marin
#34. It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.
Marin Ireland
#35. My favorite thing to hear from people is, 'I left the theater and couldn't stop thinking about it.' You want your work to have an impact after they leave the theater. It's the equivalent of leaving a musical humming a show tune.
Marin Ireland
#36. When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I always felt intimidated in pilot season trying to audition for 'the girlfriend.' Whereas when it's like, 'you're auditioning for the part of this meth addict, trailer park whatever,' it's like, 'Great!'
Marin Ireland
#37. What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.
Cheech Marin
#38. So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.
Cheech Marin
#39. Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication ... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.
Cheech Marin
#40. I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.
Cheech Marin
#42. It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.
Cheech Marin
#43. And For You Zero, A Life Sized Vudu Doll"
-Kaname Kuran
"I DONT WANT IT!"
-Zero Kiryu
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
-Juri Elizabeth Marin
Matsuri Hino
#44. Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them.
Cheech Marin
#45. Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.
John Marin
#46. The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.
Marin Ireland
#47. Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.
John Marin
#48. I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.
Huey Lewis
#49. I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish.
Cheech Marin
#51. Control oil and you control money. That's how you become a dominant player in the new Great Game - the one that Putin has been playing so masterfully in his effort to engineer the demise of the dollar.
Marin Katusa
#52. Nope. Too Much," Marin said, and tossed the little man out of the hospital window. She needed coffee. Either that or a large dose of Thorazine.
Tracey Clark
#53. A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.
John Marin
#57. It's time to pay more attention to living out what we believe instead of always trying to say it.
Andrew Marin
#58. With your votes you are working for your future. It is not a holiday; it is the most serious day of work since you were born. Better to come in clothing dirty from work than with your soul filthy from having sold your right to justice.
Luis Munoz Marin
#59. Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.
Cheech Marin
#60. The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.
Cheech Marin
#61. This upscale Marin whorehouse allowed the men to come and pick from the lineup of women like we were donuts in a pastry case.
Michelle Tea
#62. As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering over, around, and through the hills, making everything look ancient and unsolved.
Jaimal Yogis
#63. Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?
John Marin
#65. First of all, Craig Lucas' work, any of it, for any actor, is such good material. It's so alive in such a poetic, yet human way. It's theatrical, but it lets you emotionally connect with the characters.
Marin Hinkle
#66. As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'
Cheech Marin
#67. I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.
Cheech Marin
#68. How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.
John Marin
#69. I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.
Cheech Marin
#70. The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.
Cheech Marin
#71. Chicanos and running water are endlessly fascinating. I can watch them all day.
Cheech Marin
#72. Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.
Cheech Marin
#73. Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.
Cheech Marin
#74. Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.
Cheech Marin
#75. There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.
Cheech Marin
#76. Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.
John Marin
#77. Let me get this straight. You didn't feel it would be acceptable to enter my home without permission, but taking my clothes was just fine and dandy?" -Marin
Tracey Clark
#78. As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.
Cheech Marin
#79. Success means pursuing a career that inspires you-brings passion to your life and totally absorbs your energy.
Marin Alsop
#80. Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.
John Marin
#81. Rich white guys. That's the true minority.
Cheech Marin
#82. The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!
Paul Valery
#83. If there is one phrase or action that every person on the planet would like to erase from his or her memory or have the chance to undo, it would be, 'Let's do it again.'
Cheech Marin
#84. Remember this: you can have justice, or you can have two dollars. But you can t have both.
Luis Munoz Marin
#86. For the most part, people are proud of the place from which they come.
Cheech Marin
#87. Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.
Cheech Marin
#88. The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
Cheech Marin
#89. Freedom is a glorious thing. Free yourself, Marin. The bars on your cage are of your own making.
Jessie Burton
#90. I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.
Cheech Marin
#91. Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.
Cheech Marin
#92. The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.
Marin Ireland
#93. I'm definitely a feminist & proud of it.
Marin Alsop
#94. I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.
Cheech Marin
#95. You have to want to be Chicano to be Chicano.
Cheech Marin
#96. I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.
Cheech Marin
#97. I think you can directly link chihuahuas to Dow Jones.
Cheech Marin
#98. [Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow it just as it is necessary for the wheels of a clock to follow the weights and the spring that pulls them.
Marin Mersenne
#99. A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it. And since art deals wtih the perhapses and maybesos, and why not call it the consummate science ... which gets its perfection from seemingly imperfection.
John Marin
#100. I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that's uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three jobs.
Cheech Marin
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