Kevin Martin Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.

Kevin Martin

• Violence
• Cynical
• Hinduism
• Refusal
• Symbolism

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• As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • God
  • Knowledge

• Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Science
  • Professional

• The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • California
  • Weather

• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Want
  • Language

• 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

• What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Start

• I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Help
  • Parents
  • First

• Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Want
  • Same
  • Most

• Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Eyes

• Sometimes people like to ask me why should girls go to school, why is it important for them. But I think the more important question is why shouldn't they, why shouldn't they have this right to go to school.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Important
  • School

• I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• I'm told sometimes I look like Goldie Hawn, and I get chuffed about that.

  

  Bonnie Tyler

• Always my collections are made of different influences.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • Different

• My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminine body in masculine shapes. The androgynous look suits me.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Style

• I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.

  

  Jamie Hince

• I've never been paid as a prognosticator. I don't get a lot of work as a mentalist.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Work

• My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most.

  

  Linda Hamilton
  • People
  • Help
  • Struggle

• A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Men
  • Practice

• Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

  

  Nellie Bly

• “I suppose there are two worlds-the small, protected one we carve out for ourselves, where we fret about a whole lot of nothing, and the other world, the real one, which comes knocking at the door, demanding to be let in and given a seat.”

  

  Amy Hill Hearth
  • World
  • Real
  • Two

• The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Government
  • Violence
  • Silent

• Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.

  

  Kevin Martin
  • Violence
  • Cynical
  • Hinduism