Martha > Martha's Quotes

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
-Alfred Hitchcock”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov