Matthew Desmond Quotes

You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

Matthew Desmond

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Art
  • Walking

• Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Religion
  • Teach
  • Cost

• I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Mom

• Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

  

  Ice T
  • Long
  • New
  • Run

• Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Man
  • Creation

• Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Enough
  • Impossible
  • Most

• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Most
  • Mother`s
  • Philosophers

• Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Live
  • Country

• I enjoy roles that are quite physical.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Enjoy
  • Roles
  • Physical

• One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Think
  • Color
  • Thanks

• In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People

• The flames roll'd on­-he would not goWithout his father's word;That father, faint in death below,His voice no longer heard.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Father
  • Death

• I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are guttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pack,And leave your friends and go.Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,Look not to left nor right:In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Black

• I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • God
  • Country

• To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Revolution

• I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Character
  • Animal

• Certainly, we have to make sure our police forces do not have weapons of mass destruction with which they can terrorize our communities.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Police

• I’d say we have about three generations of fans at this point. When we started, some of our fans were older than we were … and then they started bringing their kids, and then their kids started bringing their kids, so it’s been great that it’s a generational thing that gets passed along.

  

  Jeff Hanna
  • Kids
  • Fans
  • Generations

• Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Men
  • Women

• Everyone must understand that you can't demand solidarity when there's a problem and shirk your duties when there are solutions.

  

  Francois Hollande

• What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Church

• You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

  

  Matthew Desmond