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“Martin Van Buren was a shitty guy. Not just because he was a bad president, and not just because he was pro-slavery. Van Buren was shitty in a very general sort of way. And with all that that implies.”
Source: How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
“Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?”
“Martin was more than happy to let Spencer take over the conversation, for it finally granted him an opportunity to observe Mrs. Wheaton- who had just achieved the impossible. She had made him laugh. Truly, she was one of a kind. She always had been, he supposed, recalling again that day at the train station.
While the polite conversation continued all around him, he allowed his gaze to meander downward and was pleased to admire the alluring feminine curves "Miss Foster" had developed over the past decade, including a lush, generous bosom, which would fare quite nicely in a lighter gown with a lower neckline, he thought. Dressed as she was at present, she reminded him of a pleasure yacht with her sails trimmed too tight, rendering her incapable of moving freely at the speed she was built for.
He wondered suddenly how this aloof young widow would respond to a little wind in her sails and a skillful skipper like himself at her helm. Would he be able to bring the best out of her, like he did with the Orpheus?
Yes, he thought with absolute confidence while he admired the grace of her gloved hand as she touched one finger to the corner of her mouth to dab at an errant drop of tea. He certainly could bring the best out of her, and also bring out that spark she kept hidden from the world. A marvelous, masculine satisfaction flowed through him at the thought of it.”
Source: Surrender to a Scoundrel
“Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.”
“Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.”
“Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought truth with clarity, not least with a kind of conviction and passion that is all too rare”
“Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.”
“Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm not interested in objectivity, quite the opposite. I want a solely and totally subjective experience...A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.”
“Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.”
“Martina Green: Today is Tuesday, February eleventh, and Zoe Spanos has been missing for six weeks to the day. Last Friday, the Herron Mills Village PD declared Zoe a runaway, and that’s why I’m here, talking to you. Because if you know Zoe, you know she didn’t run away.
Zoe Spanos is missing. And we’re missing Zoe”
Source: I Killed Zoe Spanos
“Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.”
“Martina Navratilova said in the early '90s that Seles would inspire the players of the future to also use two-handed forehands. That didn't happen, but she is responsible for the all-out aggression with which most of the top players play. All the low trajectory shots hit with just moderate amounts of spin and traveling into the corners like heat-seeking missiles? You guessed it, Monica's to blame.”
“Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.”
“Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.”
“Martindale had no valid claim on Smiley either professionally or socially. He worked on the fleshy side of the Foreign Office and his job consisted of lunching visiting dignitaries whom no one else would have entertained in his woodshed. He was a floating bachelor with a grey mane and that nimbleness which only fat men have.”
Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“Martinis and Champagne were passed, along with a selection of Bobby's best hors d'oeuvres: potato pillows dotted with crème fraîche and caviar, crawfish spread served in toast cups, miniature crab cakes topped with rémoulade, tiny tuna burgers with fresh grated ginger, served on homemade brioche (Alice's recipe, which I discovered was virtually indistinguishable from what my father used to bake for our family). There were all sorts of desserts, too, mostly southern. But the hit of the evening was, as always, Bobby's banana pudding, made with pound cake instead of Nilla wafers. For the party Bobby fixed individual puddings, served in shot glasses, topped with whipped cream instead of meringue.”
Source: A Place at the Table
“Martinis as cold as a banker's handclasp and dry as a deacon's cupboard.”
“Martinis in a can, Callie. We live in an age of wonders.”
Source: Middlesex
“Martinson’un yönteminden ilham aldığımız ve bir uzay operasına
evrilme potansiyeli olan bu anlatımızda; evreni ve zamanı
anlama çabasıyla yetiştirdiği zihinlere sonsuz nimetler
sunan Anadolu toprakları, uzay-zaman sürekliliğinde de kendisine
yer buldu. Binlerce âleme, hiç bitmeyen hikâyeleri anlatacak
olan ışık getirenlere selam olsun.”
Source: Işık Getiren
“Martinsson fired. Wallander watched Lucia fly back and put his hand up to his shoulder. The gun fell from his hand and landed outside the counter. With a bellow Martinsson yanked himself free of the guy ropes and launched himself at the counter, straight at the wounded man. The counter collapsed, and Martinsson landed in a jumble of leather jackets.
Wallander lunged forwards and grabbed the gun from mud. He saw Skinhead dash past him into crowd. No-one seemed to have noticed the shots. The traders in the surrounding stalls had watched in amazement as Martinsson made his ferocious tiger pounce.
“Get after him,” Martinsson shouted from the heap of leather jackets. “I’ll take care of this bastard.”
Source: Faceless Killers
“Martirio hablaba de él como si no reparara en su presencia, como si su opinión careciera de importancia. No se dirigía a Rodrigo, apenas lo miraba. Lo había privado de voz, lo cual no se le antojaba extraño, al fin y al cabo, no era más que un simple caballerizo, su lugar en el gran esquema del feudalismo había sido que destinado para quienes tienen como cometido bajar la mirada y permanecer a la espera sin estorbar.”
Source: Las mocedades de Rodrigo
“Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story”
“Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need."”
Source: The Christmas Wedding
“Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly.”
“Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life”
“Marty took the key out of his pocket, pushed the green button, and tore an opening in the side of the Orb.
"Now look what you've done!" Luther said. "You've wrecked Ted's Orb."
"How clumsy of me," Marty said.”
Source: Tentacles
“Martyn has made the best of his limited possibilities: he has become a politician.”
Source: QualityLand
“Martyr for Humanity (The Sonnet)
I am not a writer, I am an anomaly,
For writers run empty after a few works.
I lost count of mine a long time ago,
Yet I keep imploding with no sign of cork.
My brain keeps making appointments,
That my body can't keep without crashing.
I am not finished with one work,
And lo, another one starts pouring!
Someone, please calm my brain!
The torture grows excruciating by the minute!
Any day now hopefully an artery will blow,
Then I shall finally have my eternal rest.
Once I am gone, don't go making a cult out of me.
I shall be alive, so long as there is one human
standing ready to be martyred for humanity.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Martyr's Dilemma
(An Existential Sonnet, 1349)
Abhijit Naskar are two, not one.
Abhijit the person, Naskar the mission.
Abhijit has dreams like an ordinary man,
While Naskar is the dream of world union.
Abhijit put his hopes and dreams away,
So that Naskar could engulf the world.
Abhijit even got dumped by the girl,
Because Naskar couldn't dump the world.
The question is, do I regret all this!
With all honesty - yes, I do on occasion.
All the vastness of Naskar isn't enough,
to make up for the things I missed out on.
The point is, it's okay to have regrets,
You ain't alive till you have regrets.
Yet I never abandoned my duty to the world,
For my mission is bigger than my regrets.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life”
“Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.”
Source: Indira Speaks on Genocide War and Bangladesh
“Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.”
“Martyrdom is a trap for the oppressed. Only victory is desirable.”
Source: The War of the Poor
“Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.”
Source: The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity, Etc
“Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.”
“Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.”
“Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.”
“Martyrdom, the fanaticism of being willing to die for one's beliefs, is the essential ingredient in making others want to follow the code left behind by that sacrificial example.”
“Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.”
“Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.”
“Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.”
“martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.”
Source: Mosaic
“Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.”
“Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.”
“Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.”