Matthew Simpson Quotes

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Always
  • Word
  • Fan

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • True
  • Me
  • Mom

• I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Think
  • Hurt
  • Successful

• In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Responsibility
  • Hands

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Lose

• There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Men
  • Know
  • Understand

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Looking
  • Blame

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Age
  • Acting
  • Used

• Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Philosophy

• Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Today
  • You

• You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• I am no stranger to loud noise. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids

• If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Up

• I have a few pieces that I got for my birthdays or that I bought for myself: I acquire things that speak to me and put them on my wall. When I see things I like, I just know.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Wall

• When I see someone from Beijing owning 50 houses in Auckland I don't think that's neo-racist

  

  Winston Peters
  • Thinking
  • Racist
  • Beijing

• Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Small
  • Patriotic

• If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Small
  • Knowledge