Martin Luther Quotes

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Way
  • Football
  • Concerns

• I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Love
  • Singing

• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • American
  • Control

• When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • School
  • Home
  • Church

• Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Trying

• You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

  

  Carl Honore
  • May
  • Career
  • Best

• While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • America
  • Water
  • Positive

• The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Political
  • Change
  • Vision

• My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

  

  Yoweri Museveni

• The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all - He knows - HE knows!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Question
  • Player

• 'Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.'

  

  Ben Folds
  • Music
  • Silence

• Reality is being itself. - It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the 'isness' of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning - having freedom in its primary sense - not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Hand

• One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Music

• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Proud

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.

  

  Ned Sublette
  • Industry
  • Slaves
  • Cottage

• Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

  Alexander Chase
  • Death
  • Air
  • Travel

• They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Good
  • Great
  • King

• If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

  

  Martin Luther
  • King
  • Preacher
  • Emperor