Chris Matthews Quotes

I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.

Chris Matthews

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Express

• I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Forever

• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Always
  • Genuine

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Him

• It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Good
  • American
  • Guy

• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Time
  • New
  • Chapter

• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Best
  • Story

• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Bored
  • Sight

• Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Week

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Want

• Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Time
  • Bible

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • School
  • Money

• The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Great
  • Job
  • Culture

• I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

  

  Banksy
  • Good
  • Style
  • Painting

• I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Simple

• I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Weird