Matt Smith Quotes

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

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• Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Boy
  • Inside
  • Little

• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • America
  • Change
  • Congress

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movies
  • New Things

• Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Self
  • Just
  • Some

• Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Support
  • Needs
  • Banks

• The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Great
  • Business
  • Pretty

• We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Experience
  • Religion

• In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Child
  • Model
  • Information

• Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Long
  • Small

• You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Down

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Go

• I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Head
  • Going
  • Coach

• I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Photographer
  • Mentality

• I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Game

• At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Help
  • Career
  • Mean

• When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Violence

• I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real

• I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • People
  • Character
  • Happy

• The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.

  

  Steven Bochco
  • Sense
  • Entertainment
  • Inhumanity

• By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Silence
  • Story
  • Loud