Marty's Quotes

#1. 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

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

Marty Stuart

#3. 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

#4. Memories are fool's gold.

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Marty Rubin

#12. 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

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

#18. 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

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

#28. To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life.

Marty Rubin

#29. We know death; it's life we don't know.

Marty Rubin

#30. When the poor steal, it's the rich who profit.

Marty Rubin

#31. What is true for one time only is truer than what's always true.

Marty Rubin

#32. However far-reaching one's visions or ideas, one must start from where one is.

Marty Rubin

#33. Reciprocal illusions: the pessimist's fear and the optimist's hope.

Marty Rubin

#34. It's only in fairy tales that words have the power to change things.

Marty Rubin

#35. You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.

Marty Feldman

#36. It's our thoughts that are chaotic, not the world.

Marty Rubin

#37. 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

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

#46. 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

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Neumeier

#52. We cling to love's illusions because they're real.

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

#55. Water flows because it's willing.

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

#57. 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

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

Marty Rubin

#59. 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

#60. Freedom's chains are the hardest to break.

Marty Rubin

#61. It's hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics.

Marty Rubin

#62. Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

Marty Rubin

#63. What fades, vanishes, decays, dies-that's what one must love.

Marty Rubin

#64. It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

#66. We are important to ourselves and to those who love us. That's enough importance for anyone.

Marty Rubin

#67. What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that.

Marty Rubin

#68. Happiness isn't something one finds, it's something one creates.

Marty Rubin

#69. It's all such crap," she said. "I find this magazine called People in garbage cans," she said, "but it isn't about people. It's about crap.

Kurt Vonnegut

#70. When a head and a wall collide it's never the wall that breaks.

Marty Rubin

#71. The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.

Marty Rubin

#72. You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do.

Marty Rubin

#73. Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart.

Marty Rubin

#74. Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings.

Marty Rubin

#75. It's hard to disappoint me. Anything is fine.

Marty Rubin

#76. Freedom is the kite's response to the wind.

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

#82. 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

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Robbins

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

#89. 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

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Makary

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin

#98. 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

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

Marty Rubin

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

Marty Rubin