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When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.


Martin Compston

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MARTIN LUTHER The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and m...
MARTIN SELIGMAN Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers m...
JUDITH MARTIN All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
MARTIN LUTHER Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as co...
CHRIS MARTIN Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
MARTIN LUTHER Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
MARTIN LUTHER Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even thoug...
MARTIN LUTHER Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
MARTIN LUTHER You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star
MARTIN AMIS I am a novelist,
MARTIN AMIS I hire tea by the tea bag.
MARTIN AMIS Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn
MARTIN AMIS What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is w...
MARTIN NIEM Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct sugges...
MARTIN LUTHER To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who creat...
MARTIN SUAREZ To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life ...
MARTIN LUTHER If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universit...
JUDITH MARTIN Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and t...
AGNES MARTIN Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTIN When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in ...
AGNES MARTIN To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you d...
AGNES MARTIN My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
AGNES MARTIN Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... w...
AGNES MARTIN A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
MARTIN TUPPER Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to...
MARTIN PITT There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lo...
MARTIN ZIMET