Matthew Reilly Quotes
I read 'The Hobbit' only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through 'The Hobbit,' but it wasn't something that I discovered until later in life.
Quotes to Explore
-
There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
-
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
-
I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
-
The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
-
People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
-
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
-
I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
-
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
-
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
-
My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
-
The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
-
Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
-
I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
-
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
-
Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
-
I made nothing happen very slowly.
-
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
-
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
-
Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.
-
My first three games, I was worried too much about walking and hitting people.
-
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
-
...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.
-
I read 'The Hobbit' only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through 'The Hobbit,' but it wasn't something that I discovered until later in life.
