Matthew Simpson Quotes

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

Matthew Simpson

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• There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • May
  • Genes
  • Schizophrenia

• When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Work
  • Taken

• I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Time
  • Style
  • Library

• There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Song

• You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Losing

• Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Political

• Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • Time
  • Work
  • Dog

• The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Serious

• I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Time
  • Know
  • Ice

• Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Happy

• However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Writing
  • May
  • Think

• When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • May

• When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Mind
  • America

• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • She
  • Same
  • Bird

• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Time
  • Film
  • Resemble

• They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Hard

• Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

  

  Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • School

• He's a terrible president, he'll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country, he's been a total disaster.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • History

• It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May