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'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Different
  • Way
  • Receiving

• A constructive work is an embodiment of freedom itself, and is unconsciously perceived, even by those who are consciously against it. The desire to live is the strongest universal emotion, it springs from the depths of our unconscious sensibility – and the desire to give life is our most potent, constructive, conscious expression of this intuition.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs for hours at a time, staring at the ocean. She never had a book or the paper or anything else to distract her. Just the horizon, but it kept her attention, her gaze unwavering. Maybe it was the absence of thought that she loved about being out there, the world narrowing to just the pounding of the waves as the water moved in and out.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Book
  • House

• Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Soul
  • Brother
  • Eternity

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

  

  Martin H. Fischer