Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • High
  • Like

• Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Think
  • Best

• I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • You
  • Years
  • Process

• Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Learning
  • Yourself
  • Hunting

• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Style

• I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Time
  • Job
  • Remember

• I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Love
  • Hunting
  • Outside

• By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Poetry
  • Hunting
  • Desperate

• Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Think
  • Hunting

• My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Family
  • Love
  • Mom

• I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Myself

• Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • America
  • Hunting

• A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motions of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas. If a dog hunted for fleas on mathematical principles, basing his researches on statistics of area and population, he would never catch a flea except by accident.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Business
  • Dog
  • Hunting

• Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

  

  Philip Guedalla
  • Game
  • Hunting

• Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.

  

  Benjamin Percy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh
  • Home
  • Law
  • Hunting

• I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

  

  Joe Manchin
  • Hunting

• It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

  

  Aviva Cantor
  • Hunting
  • Progression
  • Torturing

• The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana

• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I'm the most carefree mo'fo' in the world.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • World
  • Carefree

• I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • Hunting