Matt Robinson Quotes

They didn't anticipate that it would take four or five hours to get across town.

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• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
  • Service
  • Better

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Really
  • Mainstream
  • Novelist

• For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • Son
  • Rights

• In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Exciting

• In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • House
  • Opinion

• The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Family
  • Single
  • Simple

• You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Control
  • Always
  • Inside

• I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Great
  • Eye
  • Detail

• I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Great
  • Money
  • Football

• If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Being
  • Year
  • Very

• My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • More

• For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • Story
  • Part

• On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Silence
  • Gym
  • Rare

• Eid is here! On the first day, it is a custom for all Malaysian Muslims to ask for forgiveness from our parents. We kiss their hands and wish them 'Selamat Hari Raya' or 'Eid Mubarak.' 'Maaf Zahir dan Batin' means 'to apologize in spirit and actions.'

  

  Yuna
  • Parents
  • Wish
  • Day

• In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Home
  • Stop

• It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• We always feel better in anticipation. You don't think about something and think 'Aw, it's gonna be shitty.' NO! You say 'This is gonna be the greatest weekend ever! Sonuvabitch!' And then, by Monday, you're throwing up and you're thinking 'You know, I always thought those guys were pricks!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Weekend

• If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Want
  • Religion

• I've never felt limited by my circumstances, no matter what they were. Even when I was living in Iowa, it wasn't like I had big dreams, but it wasn't that I felt I couldn't have any. I always felt very capable.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Dream
  • Circumstances
  • Capable

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• They didn't anticipate that it would take four or five hours to get across town.

  

  Matt Robinson
  • Take
  • Town
  • Anticipate