Matthew Arnold Quotes

Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

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• In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • End
  • Dreams

• Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Pain
  • Forever
  • Thought

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Children
  • Future
  • Education

• If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Free
  • Challenge
  • Worry

• 'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • You
  • Food
  • Couple

• Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Know
  • Thought

• Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Pressure

• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

  

  Iain Banks
  • American
  • Future
  • Looking

• The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Way
  • Sense
  • Independence

• People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.

  

  Warren Giles
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Adverse

• It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

  

  Mae West
  • Better
  • Over
  • Overlooked

• I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

  

  Gary Numan
  • School
  • Home
  • Parents

• I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Country
  • City

• If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • She
  • Girlfriend

• Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Stupidity
  • Anonymity
  • No Excuse

• Lo que no quiero, al arrojarlo de mis manos, va a caer al alcance de mis manos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

  

  Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover
  • Car
  • Sick
  • Drug

• Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Pain
  • Problems
  • Drugs

• I don't write every day. I write when I want to write.

  

  Claudia Rankine

• I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People

• The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Life
  • Today
  • Car

• Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

  

  Matthew Arnold