Matthew Prior Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
-
If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
-
An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
-
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
-
We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
-
You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
-
Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
-
The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
-
I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
-
I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
-
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
-
Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
-
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
-
I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
-
Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
-
Not once did I feel pressurised that I was stepping into Mr. Bachchan's shoes. I don't say I didn't feel the pressure of starring in a remake of 'Zanjeer,' but somewhere, that worked to my advantage.
-
Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
-
I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.
-
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.
-
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
-
Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.
-
We are much better at writing code than haiku.
-
For an artist or an entertainer, it's the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you're done your work and escape.
-
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
