Isaac Marion Quotes

We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.

Isaac Marion

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• 'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Question
  • First
  • Explore

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Money
  • Had
  • Anxieties

• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • Dresses
  • Girly

• If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Learn
  • Laugh
  • Grow

• My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Great
  • City
  • Commitment

• Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Building
  • Fish
  • Heat

• May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Young

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Write

• You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done

• 'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Gentleman

• I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Design

• In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Children
  • Why

• I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Live
  • English

• I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music

• I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Night

• We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.

  

  Isaac Marion
  • Dark
  • Motion
  • Fumble