Matthew Prior Quotes

They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

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• Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Woman
  • Balance
  • Partner

• Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Being
  • Testimony
  • Owe

• I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Money
  • May
  • Girl

• A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Family
  • May
  • Humble

• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Night

• I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • California

• If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Guy

• My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Actor

• But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • Team
  • Day

• There is usually enough of everything on the table except cream.

  

  E. W. Howe

• Atque eam natura ipsa videtur ad tolerandos facilius labores velut muneri nobis dedisse, si quidem et remigem cantus hortatur; nec solum in iis operibus in quibus plurium conatus praeeunte aliqua iucunda voce conspirat, sed etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se rudi modulatione solatur.

  

  Quintilian

• Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Long

• Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

  

  Larry Wall

• ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.

  

  James Comey
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Model

• I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I work hard. I work 24/7.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • Work
  • Cocky

• I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Black
  • College
  • Crazy

• I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Brain
  • Married
  • MAle

• When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • World
  • Country
  • Football

• If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

  

  Margaret Turnbull
  • Search
  • Places
  • TPF

• I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Know
  • Stop
  • Voice

• Here's the formula for Obama's success: 'They work, and you eat.'

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Work
  • Success

• They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

  

  Matthew Prior