Marty Quotes

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier. ~ Marty Meehan

The world is real; philosophy is the illusion. ~ Marty Rubin

The mistake every lonely person makes is to confuse attention with love. ~ Marty Rubin

What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct. ~ Marty Rubin

My advice to you is to dance while you still can. ~ Marty Rubin

Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings. ~ Marty Rubin

Whatever I love to do I will always try to find the easiest and most pleasant way to do it. ~ Marty Rubin

The tree that gets hit by lightning is the one you remember. ~ Marty Rubin

Be yourself, or whatever self you'd like to be. ~ Marty Rubin

Out the corner of my eye I see Packard fly at Marty, pin him against the wall. "You do not do that! You do not!" He jerks Marty with every *not*. "You do *not* disrespect that woman, you understand me?" Packard speaks through his teeth, as if to bite back his fury. "It was your goddamn *lucky* day she decided to come in here. And you would spit at her? You were *privileged* she came in here! ~ Carolyn Crane

I adore a vacuum ... a place to rest. ~ Marty Rubin

Tyranny is the desire to have the last word. ~ Marty Rubin

Remember: things only have the meaning and importance you give them. ~ Marty Rubin

Amazing what people will believe just because they read it in a book. ~ Marty Rubin

What does introspection mean? It means you're looking in the wrong direction. ~ Marty Rubin

Belief, not lack of it, is the source of intolerance. The greater the belief, the greater the intolerance. ~ Marty Rubin

Unseen influences are the most persuasive. ~ Marty Rubin

Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality. ~ Marty Rubin

We learn everything from experience, and what we learn we can't share or keep. ~ Marty Rubin

Burn all the dictionaries and the things of the world will still be there. ~ Marty Rubin

It's not easy to change things. Things fight back. ~ Marty Rubin

Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves. ~ Marty Rubin

Wrapped up in our thoughts we can't hear love or beauty's song. ~ Marty Rubin

The simplest action is worth more than the profoundest thought. ~ Marty Rubin

I'm for the revolutionaries but against the revolution. ~ Marty Rubin

The only magic cure is to endure. ~ Marty Rubin

It's always the 'others' who are deceived. ~ Marty Rubin

How many useless things one owns just because one has closets to put them in! ~ Marty Rubin

Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real. ~ Marty Rubin

What a sad life when one loves nothing and no one. ~ Marty Rubin

Wise men count backward toward zero. They know that's where contentment lies. ~ Marty Rubin

One continually hears the declaration that the direct primary [for legislative offices] will take power from the politicians and give it to the people. This is pure nonsense. Politics has been, is, and always will be carried on by politicians, just as art is carried on by artists, engineering by engineers, business by businessmen. All that the direct primary, or any other political reform, can do is affect the character of the politicians by altering the conditions that govern political activity, thus determining its extent and quality. The direct primary may take advantage and opportunity from one set of politicians and confer them upon another set, but politicians there will always be so long as there is politics. (Cited in Key 1965, 394-95) ~ Marty Cohen

What we do today means a great deal, though it may mean nothing tomorrow. ~ Marty Rubin

Hypocrisy is the homage freedom pays to social convention. ~ Marty Rubin

Like Puck I like it best when things turn out preposterously. ~ Marty Rubin

Digging, one finds more rocks than gold. ~ Marty Rubin

The unemotional life is not worth living. ~ Marty Rubin

Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions. ~ Marty Rubin

Love only starts to hurt when one stops loving. ~ Marty Rubin

Man or woman didn't matter. Marty liked men, Kent liked women, and Bridge apparently liked both. But Eric was the one he wanted above all others, and for whatever reason, that felt all kinds of right.

"Shit. I'm Eric-sexual. ~ L.C. Chase

Success in politics is the art of the timely lie. ~ Marty Rubin

When you win an argument, what do you win? ~ Marty Rubin

Whatever gets you moving and out of your head is good for you. ~ Marty Rubin

God had no purpose in creating the world. He was just having fun. ~ Marty Rubin

Live each day as if you were going to die that night. ~ Marty Rubin

One has to be suspicious of anyone who seeks the limelight. ~ Marty Rubin

When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up. ~ Marty Rubin

April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden. ~ Marty Rubin

Nothing is more obscene to me than the glorification of suffering. ~ Marty Rubin

I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more. ~ Marty Rubin

When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it laughed. ~ Marty Rubin

Mosquitoes, how wonderful! No one puts them in cages or makes pets out of them. ~ Marty Rubin

Philosophy: doesn't it seem silly to go on asking questions you know have no answer? ~ Marty Rubin

Beliefs and opinions are nonsense. I don't even want to know what I think. ~ Marty Rubin

Give people plenty of opportunity to enjoy themselves by emphasizing ways that let people participate in the experience ... ~ Marty Sklar

The biggest lie: I wish. ~ Marty Rubin

To dance sublimely, one has to forget all about dancing. ~ Marty Rubin

The aquariums of the imagination contain only dead fish. ~ Marty Rubin

What you're afraid to think must be the truth. ~ Marty Rubin

A consistent outlook is inconsistent with reality. ~ Marty Rubin

Fear is to the mind what sickness is to the body. ~ Marty Rubin

Human behavior cannot be explained for the simple reason that it makes no sense. ~ Marty Rubin

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them. ~ Marty Rubin

The perfect plan is to have none. ~ Marty Rubin

Be brave. You are all on your own. ~ Marty Rubin

I enjoy silence but prefer speech: its energy, its warmth, its humanity. ~ Marty Rubin

Nothing is more grotesque to me than this world of greed and drudgery humans have created. ~ Marty Rubin

Critics, in other words, idiots. ~ Marty Rubin

Prometheus gave us fire and we use it to light cigarettes. ~ Marty Rubin

Numbness is not happiness. ~ Marty Rubin

Even the faded flower refutes nothingness. ~ Marty Rubin

When you're happy you don't think about it. You just are. ~ Marty Rubin

If you have the experience, why do you need the words? ~ Marty Rubin

Writing is about preserving things, life is about letting go. ~ Marty Rubin

Content not to know my purpose here or where I'm going. ~ Marty Rubin

Turns out we're stronger in reality than in our imagination. We survive hardships and losses we never thought we could. ~ Marty Rubin

Don't look for somebody to love. Love somebody. ~ Marty Rubin

Drug-pushers, God-pushers, sex-pushers, art-pushers-all kinds of pushers. ~ Marty Rubin

Love hates to be cross-examined. Question love, and it runs away. ~ Marty Rubin

You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time. ~ Marty Nemko

When sunlight does to the surface of water, music does to the spirit. ~ Marty Rubin

The well of secrets has no bottom. ~ Marty Rubin

Wander, and leave a trail of freedom wherever you go. ~ Marty Rubin

A philosophy must be livable; it can't just be ideas. ~ Marty Rubin

Enjoy today, the time you have now, for time cannot be found only lost. ~ Marty Rubin

The wise oyster stays in its shell. ~ Marty Rubin

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ~ Marty Bucella

Days one mindlessly fritters away are the best days ~ Marty Rubin

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in. ~ Marty Robbins

There are two sacrifices one must never make: one's freedom or one's happiness. ~ Marty Rubin

One should live as if living were all that mattered. ~ Marty Rubin

The mind loves riddles but not the heart. The heart loves only to touch and be touched. ~ Marty Rubin

Be careful what you remember, because that's what you'll become. ~ Marty Rubin

Talent is being able to please people. ~ Marty Robbins

The fish don't need to know why they're in the water. ~ Marty Rubin

Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow. ~ Marty Rubin

You'd think their freedom would be most sacred to people, but no most would rather conform and fit in. ~ Marty Rubin

Don't look for gold where there is none. ~ Marty Rubin

You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience. ~ Marty Rubin

What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be. ~ Marty Rubin