Martin H. Fischer Quotes

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

Martin H. Fischer

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• There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Story

• I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Doing
  • Overcome

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Song
  • Stop

• There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Focus
  • Doubt
  • Iran

• Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • Family
  • Funny

• I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Fan

• The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Interesting
  • Fashion
  • Thing

• One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • World
  • God
  • Youth

• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

  

  Jane Austen

• There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.

  

  Angus King
  • Guy

• ... deshalb ich diese als die Metaphysik des Volkes bezeichnet habe.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Die

• I am very aware that I'm one of the luckiest people who ever lived.

  

  Matt Cohler
  • People

• That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Money
  • Support

• I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Movie

• Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Life
  • Great
  • Education

• I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

  

  Conrad Veidt
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

  

  Dominique Pire
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering
  • Moral

• I grew up in a town where there were no Muslims whatsoever, and there was not a lot of exposure.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Up

• Also, the Race for the Cure and the other events that we have because our job is to celebrate hope and to give people a vision for the future, not to depress them all the time and say, you know, you’re gonna die from this.

  

  Nancy Brinker
  • People
  • Hope
  • Future

• With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying loose fruit and veg, choosing products with recyclable packaging, and avoiding individually wrapped portions - can have a big impact.

  

  Sheherazade Goldsmith
  • Simple
  • Bigs
  • Impact

• You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

  

  Martin H. Fischer