Matt Roper Quotes

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• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Thought

• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Why
  • Day

• I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Up
  • Never
  • Anything

• Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Path
  • Leave
  • Lead

• The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poet
  • Politician
  • Cultures

• In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Peace

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Well
  • Sexuality

• I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Popular
  • Office
  • Higher

• I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Me
  • See

• Every choice you make has an end result.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • End
  • Choice

• A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Painting

• Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Up
  • Time
  • Doing

• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • America
  • Military
  • Latin

• so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • She

• After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Air
  • Rocks
  • Roads

• I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.

  

  Terrence J
  • Past
  • Relationship
  • Path

• I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

  

  Matt Roper