When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.


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STEVE MARTIN
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STEVE MARTIN
Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in...
STEVE MARTIN
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...
STEVE MARTIN
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN
Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN
Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
STEVE MARTIN
It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
MARTIN LUTHER
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in th...
WALTER MARTIN
Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gif...
WALTER MARTIN
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremel...
WALTER MARTIN
I am not an enemy of Adventism.
WALTER MARTIN
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
WALTER MARTIN
Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to ...
WALTER MARTIN
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
WALTER MARTIN
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe...
WALTER MARTIN
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
WALTER MARTIN
You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have rea...
WALTER MARTIN
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separat...
WALTER MARTIN
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of Go...
WALTER MARTIN
Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same...
DEMETRI MARTIN
The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
DEMETRI MARTIN
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
STEVE MARTIN
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindnes...
MARTIN SCORSESE
Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to ...
MARTIN ZWEIG
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
MARTIN SCORSESE
My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big...
CATHERINE MARTIN
God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There sh...
MARTIN O'MALLEY
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than...
MARTIN LUTHER
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
MARTIN LUTHER
'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut...
MARTIN VILLENEUVE
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w...
MARTIN PARR
I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
DEMETRI MARTIN
Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day,...
MARTIN CHEMNITZ
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can...
MARTIN SELIGMAN
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER