Martin Freeman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
-
This was just one of many times God has spared me.
-
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
-
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
-
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
-
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
-
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
-
What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
-
I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
-
Speed can't always get you wickets.
-
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
-
It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
-
The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
-
The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
-
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
-
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
-
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
-
Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
-
Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
-
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
-
Why are Gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why Gentiles were created.
-
I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and Proust, and just felt this endless, total inadequacy.
-
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
-
I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.
