Matt Groening Quotes

I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

Matt Groening

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• Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Cool
  • Voice
  • Bold

• With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Day
  • Dance
  • Sunday

• One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Want
  • Myself
  • China

• I'm definitely a foodie.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Definitely

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Art
  • Always
  • Theatre

• I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Sexy
  • London

• What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Like
  • Him
  • Gucci

• I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • House
  • Look
  • Cure

• Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

  

  Tecumseh
  • Great
  • Country
  • Children

• I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Fear

• Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Difficult
  • Short

• Lo! the moon ascending!Up from the East, the silvery round moon;Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;Immense and silent moon.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Up
  • House
  • Beautiful

• People ask me, 'Why do you drink diet soda?' So I can eat regular cake!

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Why

• I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Great
  • Live
  • Heart

• God made me pass through the disciplines of various paths. First according to the Puranas, then according to the Tantra. I also followed the disciplines of the Vedas...I practised all sorts of Sadhana .... During my Sadhana period I had all kinds of amazing visions.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Amazing
  • Period

• Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Sun

• When one half of the nation demonizes the other half, tendrils of resentment reach out and strangle whatever charitable impulses remain in us.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Reach
  • Impulses
  • Demonizes

• There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Change
  • Lost
  • Story

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

  

  William Westmoreland
  • War
  • Age
  • Peace

• I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Promise
  • Bless

• I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

  

  Matt Groening