#mart

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. ↗

— Tom Ford

#city #country #escape #film #get

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory. ↗

— John Foxe

#crowned #crowns #eternal #flowers #garlands

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#lambs #really #silence #smart

We get too soon old and too late smart. ↗

— Frank Kelly Freas

#late #old #smart #soon #too

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#civil #civil rights #him #his #jr

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ↗

— Bill Gates

#into #lose #lousy #people #seduces

It's all about training smart. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#smart #training

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#get #i #i believe #i believe the #older

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#although #books #dirty #ever #everything

My time of martial arts was traditional. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#martial #martial arts #my time #time #traditional