Peter Matthiessen Quotes

When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

Peter Matthiessen

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• He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nature
  • Enjoy
  • Sunshine

• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Person
  • Moment
  • Everything

• Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Professional

• A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Time
  • Character
  • Man

• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Power
  • Change
  • Wishes

• There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Rock
  • My Life

• I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Comedians

• I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Great
  • God
  • Believe

• It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Kind

• I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Want
  • Travel
  • Dog

• Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Financial

• There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Up
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Great
  • Day
  • Appreciate

• What life have you, if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • God
  • Together

• I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Reading
  • Understanding

• On the day that you were bornThe angels got togetherAnd decided to create a dream come trueSo they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of goldAnd starlight in your eyes of blue.

  

  Hal David
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• That's the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn't have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can't have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • World
  • Team
  • Lost

• I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you're like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • Up
  • Movie

• Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Light
  • Dark
  • For Her

• Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case.

  

  Ken Livingstone

• When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

  

  Peter Matthiessen