Martin Atkins Quotes

#1. Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.

Rebecca Rasmussen

#2. My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

John Woolman

#3. In life, there are a lot of expectations. I see why in the South, especially, there's a simple existence. People, whether they're cowboys or farmers or ranchers, you just get up, you do your job, you have a family, you come home.

Scott Haze

#4. So, you know when the limit's up on love?" he asked and I felt my chest depress as the profound weight of his question hit me. "No," I whispered. "Right. No. No one does. Not you. Not me. No one.

Kristen Ashley

#5. Whatever isn't born out of deep confidence in God is sin. That includes our personality and our approach to life.

John Eldredge

#6. When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

Billy Crystal

#7. When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.

Jaco Van Dormael

#8. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Beyonce Knowles

#9. She is not what I envied in high school, the popular girl. She is something I'm not even sure existed then, the sure-footed girl. She gives the impression of being completely herself, and only a part of that impression is false.

Anna Quindlen

#10. Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole ...

Henri Matisse

#11. To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.

Eric Ripert

#12. [M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

Joseph Campbell

#13. Outside, he had a sudden feeling that at moments there was too much light for human eyes. It caused men to feel weak and befuddled.

Warren Eyster

#14. Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

Kurt Angle

#15. If you KNOW that you're FUCKED Then you're NOT If you think that you're NOT THEN YOU ARE!
Isn't that lovely? Iambic pentangle?

Martin Atkins