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.

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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

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• 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

• It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Energy
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear

• 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

• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Love
  • Young

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

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Politics
  • My Life

• I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Religious

• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Present

• I didn't grow up loving horror.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Up

• My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • College
  • Thought

• 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