Matt Haig Quotes

I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel... all those great things. Maths is a backbone for it.

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Feeling
  • City

• It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Want
  • Old
  • Test

• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Public
  • Transportation

• One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Fun

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Better

• I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • War
  • Doing

• If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Think

• As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Need
  • Far

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Enough

• At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Engineering

• There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • American
  • Internet

• I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Art
  • Opinion
  • Perfection

• I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • See
  • New
  • New York

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Great
  • Family
  • Home

• The great multitudes continue to develop; the new ideas continue to attain their proper force within society; the material possibilities for the full development of all members of society make the task much more fruitful. The present is a time for struggle; the future is ours.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Future

• So I broke into the palace, with a sponge and a rusty spannerShe said 'eh, I know you and you cannot sing'I said 'that's nothing you should hear me play piano'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel... all those great things. Maths is a backbone for it.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Great
  • Science
  • Space