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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• The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Problem
  • Trump
  • Exist

• 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

• The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

  

  Lytton Strachey
  • Art
  • History
  • Age

• ... 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

• He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • World
  • Jesus
  • Wishes

• The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Real

• I hope Pinterest is my last job.

  

  Ben Silbermann
  • Job
  • Hope

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

  

  Martin H. Fischer