Top 100 Marty's Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Marty's

#18. Anything you want to know about Kingston's green versus orange war, everything you ever need to know about the rudeboy-cum-gunman is not in Bob Marley's lyrics or in Peter Tosh's but in Marty Robbins's "Big Iron." He's

Marlon James

#19. We have to get over the idea that there's some right way to live.

Marty Rubin

#20. Marty used to tell her she had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across her features like reflections on a still pond.

Jojo Moyes

#21. The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he's awake.

Marty Rubin

#22. Water flows because it's willing.

Marty Rubin

#23. You begin with other people's memories and end up with your own.

Marty Rubin

#24. Love hurts because we think that's what love is.

Marty Rubin

#25. It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.

Marty Rubin

#26. The writer's job is to free language from the prison of ideas.

Marty Rubin

#27. Some people are so clever there's just no hope for them.

Marty Rubin

#28. I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

Steve Martin

#29. Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow.

Marty Rubin

#30. If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

Marty Rubin

#31. Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.

Marty Rubin

#32. An artist's work is one long conversation with life.

Marty Rubin

#33. When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up.

Marty Rubin

#34. U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.

Marty Makary

#35. Cities get built out of poet's dreams.

Marty Rubin

#36. The craving for recognition is every artist's Achilles heel.

Marty Rubin

#37. Once you start trying to make life simple, it's not simple anymore.

Marty Rubin

#38. If wars still exist, it's because we don't love peace enough.

Marty Rubin

#39. The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having.

Marty Rubin

#40. When people talk to themselves they should listen more. That's how writers are born.

Marty Rubin

#41. Music's power is like love's power: one can feel but never understand it.

Marty Rubin

#42. Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

Marty Robbins

#43. Where there is a strong need to believe it's incredible what people will believe.

Marty Rubin

#44. Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

Alan Vega

#45. Let's be happy and forget all about art and politics!

Marty Rubin

#46. It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story.

Marty Rubin

#47. A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

Marty Rubin

#48. The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists.

Marty Rubin

#49. To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

Martin E. Marty

#50. To extract major truths from minor details is an artist's job.

Marty Rubin

#51. The poet's task is to give every echo a voice.

Marty Rubin

#52. It's a sick philosophy that begrudges people their illusions.

Marty Rubin

#53. The most terrifying thing is one's own imagination.

Marty Rubin

#54. Everyone's truth is their own life.

Marty Rubin

#55. Love is the desire for another's happiness.

Marty Rubin

#56. The ultimate aim of reading or writing poetry is to enrich one's life experience.

Marty Rubin

#57. An echo has no voice of its own.

Marty Rubin

#58. It's not easy to change things. Things fight back.

Marty Rubin

#59. She's a lesbian Marty. Girls, she likes girls and no amount of frosted eye shadow is going to make her want dick.

Dakota Cassidy

#60. Our perception of what's real is always changing and that never changes.

Marty Rubin

#61. It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.

Marty Rubin

#62. What is technology in the end but man's futile effort to create the world in his own image?

Marty Rubin

#63. When a person wants nothing, it's evil to tempt them with something.

Marty Rubin

#64. Beauty is something that changes your life, not something you understand.

Marty Rubin

#65. I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life ... It's a religious thing.

Marty Robbins

#66. People always say, "It's not that simple." But maybe it is.

Marty Rubin

#67. We humans are part of nature and whatever creative talents we might have come from nature and are part of nature's gift to us.

Marty Rubin

#68. More of that hair-raising energy rolled out of Vlad, until I was rubbing my arms to chase the tingling sensations away. Was this what Marty meant when he told me vampires could measure each others' strength by feeling their auras? If so, then Vlad's had Badass: Do Not Engage written all over it.

Jeaniene Frost

#69. An artist's work never leads anywhere except to the unknown.

Marty Rubin

#70. Art's aim is life, a deeper connection with life.

Marty Rubin

#71. Lovers jump into bed without thinking. It's the only way it can be done.

Marty Rubin

#72. To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself.

Marty Rubin

#73. Memories are fool's gold.

Marty Rubin

#74. There are two kinds of people, there's those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will.

Marty Stuart

#75. What his son, Marty, never fully understood was that deep down there was an Ethel-shaped hole in Henry's life, and without her, all he felt was the draft of loneliness, cold and sharp, the years slipping away like blood from a wound that never heals.

Jamie Ford

#76. Brand is not what you say it is. It's what they say it is.

Marty Neumeier

#77. It's only the poor who can't get away with murder.

Marty Rubin

#78. Be alive to the moment, that's all you can do.

Marty Rubin

#79. The waitress brought a fresh pot of tea, and Marty refilled his father's cup and poured a cup for Samantha. Henry in turn filled Marty's. It was a tradition Henry cherished - never filling your own cup, always filling that of someone else, who would return the favor.

Jamie Ford

#80. I prefer Nature's indifference to God's love.

Marty Rubin

#81. Humanity's favorite pasttime: pretending to know what it doesn't know.

Marty Rubin

#82. There's a sense that we've obtained from various quarters in the Security Council that the notion of an international tribunal is not really practical. Certainly Indonesia is not convinced, and we get a sense that the rest of the Security Council will need to be convinced about the recommendations.

Marty Natalegawa

#83. Enjoying nonsense is one of life's primal pleasures.

Marty Rubin

#84. Truth is what's left when you run out of excuses.

Marty Rubin

#85. Be something! That's the inscription written over the gates of hell.

Marty Rubin

#86. That's what art does: it breaks down walls.

Marty Rubin

#87. Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone.

Marty Rubin

#88. There is only one thing that matters in art-to express one's individuality.

Marty Rubin

#89. What is the meaning of a cactus flower? It exists, that's all.

Marty Rubin

#90. Truth's opposite is not a lie, but a hundred thousand lies.

Marty Rubin

#91. She was thin like Kylie, but she had a manic energy like Shane, so it was probably drugs.
That's just the means though, the end result is the same. She was one of us. Her, Shane, Marty, Roger, Kylie, me.
People being eaten alive from the inside out.

Kirsty Eagar