Martin O'Malley Quotes

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

Martin O'Malley

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• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• I love having critics for breakfast.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Love
  • Breakfast
  • Critics

• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Try
  • Fiction
  • Short

• I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Book
  • American
  • Community

• One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Political
  • Young
  • Wave

• I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Society
  • Always
  • Honor

• Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Alone
  • Fight

• The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • You
  • Creative
  • Pressure

• I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Only

• Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Today
  • House
  • Myself

• Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• I think there will always be need of trusted voices in the investment community, but what the ICO markets are showing is that the world has incredible demand for future-looking projects!

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Think
  • Future

• Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Game

• Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Real
  • Day

• I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Night
  • Day
  • Hard

• I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Work
  • Long
  • Enjoy

• It must be visible or invisible, Invisible or visible or both: A seeing and unseeing in the eye.The weather and the giant of the weather, Say the weather, the mere weather, the mere air: An abstraction blooded, as a man by thought.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Air

• True prayer requires no word, no chant no gesture, no sound. It is communion, calm and still with our own godly Ground

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • True
  • Prayer
  • Calm

• There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.

  

  Elias Hicks
  • God
  • Believe

• Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Thinking
  • Photograph
  • According

• Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Things
  • Contradict
  • Scruple

• The songs that give you the most trouble become your best songs.

  

  Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Trouble

• The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Stage
  • Fools

• Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

  

  Martin O'Malley