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

• You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• I never feel like I have anything. People can tell me a thousand times, 'You're the guy, you're the guy,' and I'm just like, 'We'll see when I'm on the set.'

  

  Andy Daly
  • People
  • Guy

• I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

  

  Cheryl Cole
  • Happy
  • Hurt

• Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

  

  Nick Clooney
  • Animals
  • Cruel
  • Outcasts

• If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Clue

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

  

  Matthew Arnold