Matthew Walker Quotes
We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.
Quotes to Explore
-
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
-
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
-
I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
-
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
-
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
-
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
-
You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
-
Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
-
Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
-
See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
-
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
-
I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
-
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
-
I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
-
Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
-
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
-
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
-
You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
-
The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.
-
Teachers alone can't educate young people.
-
You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.
-
We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.
-
We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.
