Martin Freeman Quotes

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

Martin Freeman

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• Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • May
  • Gods
  • Approach

• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Society
  • Way
  • Better

• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Possible

• Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • History
  • Know
  • Me

• I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Worry
  • Down
  • Numbers

• If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Rest
  • Ideas

• One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Know
  • Relationship

• Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Life
  • Live
  • War

• I know just one thing is those guys, KG and everyone, they're hungry. They want it bad. Sam's the only one that's had that, has the ring. Other than him, everybody else over there, we want it bad.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Know

• Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Bad
  • Food

• When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Live
  • Experience

• So shall he strive, in changeful hue,Field, feast, and combat, to renew,And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee,And all the pomp of chivalry.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Strive
  • Combat
  • Feast

• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • True

• The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

  

  Alan Turing
  • Done
  • May

• As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Thinking
  • Long

• If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins
  • Night

• I would like to be the best in the world, but that's not the be-all and end-all. I want to have fun in my sport, and I want to take it as far as I can. Obviously, I do have big goals like that. But they don't take over who I am as a person and my family and everything else that's important in my life.

  

  Kirsten Sweetland
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

  

  Jim McMahon

• Right now we're in a precarious situation, ... One thumb, and now we've got two, so that's not going to work out.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Work
  • Strategy

• Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

  

  Alexander Herzen
  • Childhood
  • Insanity

• The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Song
  • Memories
  • Victory

• When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Kids
  • Worry
  • Start

• 'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Insanity