Matt Groening Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
-
I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
-
A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
-
To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
-
I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
-
When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
-
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
-
We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
-
It's up to the audience. It always has been.
-
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
-
At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
-
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
-
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
-
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
-
If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
-
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
-
The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
-
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
-
The facts are always less than what really happened.
-
Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.
-
Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.
-
You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
-
The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.
-
Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
