Matthew Pearl Quotes

If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.

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• I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Teenager

• The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Work
  • Why
  • Pasta

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • See

• Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Follow

• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • War
  • Democracy

• The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • True
  • Lost

• I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Friends
  • Place
  • Come

• The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Arts

• From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • True
  • Expression
  • Stronger

• I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Arms
  • Crowd

• There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • Study
  • Natural Disasters

• I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Human
  • Emotion
  • Writer

• I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Star

• We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Nature

• The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

  

  Peter R. Grant

• One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Justice

• More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

  

  William Lashner
  • World
  • Different
  • Wish

• My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Dream
  • Eye
  • Infinite

• If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.

  

  Matthew Pearl