Eugene J. Martin Quotes

All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.

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• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • You
  • See
  • Advertising

• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Children
  • Community
  • Health

• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Nothing

• I graduated from the University of Whatever.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • University
  • Graduation

• There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Memories

• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • World
  • Thought
  • California

• I have been vain since birth.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Birth
  • Been
  • Vain

• Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • Death
  • Stop

• Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Compassion

• Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then - How old is Spring, Miranda?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Spring

• My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Girlfriend

• It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Crazy
  • Doubt

• As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Education

• Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Dance
  • Gossip
  • Hamlet

• Basketball is basketball, but with each level, there's new challenges and new things you have to pick up.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Up
  • Basketball

• About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Good

• I like it when a script shows you something new, and you can learn something through the journey of a film rather than being told things you already know.

  

  Lucy Fry
  • Journey

• Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Taught
  • Lesson
  • Advantageous

• We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Lesson

• The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.

  

  Stonewall Jackson
  • Enemy
  • Rule
  • Follow

• We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Waiting

• All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Enemy
  • Lesson
  • Obsession