Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
-
Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
-
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
-
Running back was always my favorite position.
-
It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
-
In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
-
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
-
The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
-
When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
-
My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
-
Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
-
I don't see myself as a diva at all.
-
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
-
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
-
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
-
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
-
It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
-
I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
-
Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.
-
A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.
-
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
-
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
-
Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
-
God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.
