Eugene J. Martin Quotes

When making a commitment, make it not to someone, but of someone to yourself.

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• But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Me
  • Prefer
  • Smiling

• The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World
  • Literature
  • Better

• The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Past
  • Fighting
  • Class

• When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Power
  • Order
  • Nuclear Power

• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Help
  • Hope

• I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fight

• Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Live
  • Health
  • Statistics

• Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Pain
  • Decision

• What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Great
  • Dance
  • Judge

• I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Great

• Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Mother

• The main issue when it comes to hiring someone from Asia is the language barrier. It's difficult to book someone when they don't speak the language and they can't deliver the lines or even speak to the director. But in terms of Asian-American actresses, we all speak it fluently!

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Book
  • American

• I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

  

  David Storey
  • People
  • Football

• Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Everyday

• I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Time
  • Why
  • Hope

• In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will, however, only be put to the test if and when the time comes for another election, which the opposition may win.

  

  Martin Van Creveld
  • Time
  • May
  • Democracy

• One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Management
  • Time Management

• It was tragic every single time my mom told me we were moving. I would always envy my friends who had grown up in the same house their entire life, and they had markings on the wall of 'me at five years old' and all that. It made me so sad. I wished I'd had that.

  

  Camila Mendes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.

  

  Bob Monkhouse
  • Real
  • Home

• When making a commitment, make it not to someone, but of someone to yourself.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Commitment