Matthew McGrory Quotes

Short films don't go too far.

Matthew McGrory

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• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Decisions

• David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Phone
  • Touch
  • James

• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Art
  • Remember

• I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • See
  • I Can
  • Blind

• I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

  

  Otis Rush
  • People
  • Know
  • Play

• Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Natural

• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Long
  • Look
  • Old

• I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Success
  • Ego
  • Competitive

• I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Business
  • Age
  • Success

• I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Power
  • Death
  • Earth

• I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • School
  • Feeling

• I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

  Gail Devers
  • Disease
  • Illness
  • Surgery

• We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Europe

• The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Devil
  • Level
  • Concept

• That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Today
  • Me
  • Voice

• You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Tired

• An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • American

• When I am around someone who is a joy stealer, I say to myself, I only have to deal with you for an hour. That person has to deal with thinking that way every moment of their lives.

  

  Bonnie St. John
  • Joy
  • Hour
  • Stealer

• Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Reason

• The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

  

  Josephine Baker
  • Love
  • Things
  • Hearts

• If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• Short films don't go too far.

  

  Matthew McGrory