Martine Syms Quotes

I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.

Martine Syms

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Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

Andrea Arnold

LifeNatureLoveGoUpWandering

I will not stop my blog.

John McAfee

StopWillBlog

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

Ani DiFranco

SayShut UpUpJustRatherShut

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Stephen Hawking

VoiceBetterSpeechOldKeepMade

With Don Rickles and me, we're just telling the truth. We're not terrific people, and we're not gonna win the beauty contest. We're just average Joes. We're just being who we are, and I think people like that.

Lisa Lampanelli

BeautyTruthPeopleMeWinThink

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

Donald G. Mitchell

DreamsAgeDayYouthEndingSummer

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

Boris Johnson

TogetherSocietyYouTryOne Thing

When I first got out of school, I went on a children's theater tour, and I went around the country a little bit that fall, and it was the first time I went to Chicago. We spend a couple of days in Chicago, and I was really struck viscerally by the city.

Allison Tolman

ChildrenTimeSchoolCityFallOut

At film festivals, I put on my sunglasses and go to sleep because I don't want to see my films again.

Wong Kar-wai

SleepSunglassesFestivalsGoWant

When Abu Zubaydah was shown a series of photos of al Qaeda members by Soufan, he identified one of them as the operational commander of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Peter Bergen

CommanderHeOperationalMembers

I'm left-handed.

Thundercat

Left-Handed

How I thrive is very simple. My son brought my perspective back to focusing on and appreciating the simple things in life. It's about just being with my family - whether that's waking up in bed next to my husband under the comforter and just hugging or walking down the street and holding my son's hand.

Tia Mowry

LifeFamilySonPerspectiveSimple

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