#martin

Heade’s calm is unsteady, storm-stirred; we respond in our era to its hint of the nervous and the fearful. His weather is interior weather, in a sense, and he perhaps was, if far from the first to portray a modern mood, an ambivalent mood tinged with dread and yet imbued with a certain lightness.The mood could even be said to be religious: not an aggressive preachment of God’s grandeur but a kind of Zen poise and acceptance, represented by the small sedentary or plodding foreground figures that appear uncannily at peace as the clouds blacken and the lightning flashes. ↗

— John Updike

#art #martin-johnson-heade #art

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#between #carry #cart #casey #clubs

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#driven #florida #martinez #million #needs

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#benedict-cumberbatch #bilbo-baggins #film #humor #martin-freeman

Shaga: How would you like to die, little man? Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #geogre-r-r-martin #age

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5. ↗

— Jay Kay

#drive #hat #i #martin #may

Chus Martinez is a transsexual collective phantom. Anybody can be Chus Martinez! ↗

— Chus Martinez

#art-project #chus-martinez #multiple-identities #neoism #art