Harry Mathews Quotes

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

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• In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • See
  • Everyone
  • Europe

• It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Way
  • Europe
  • June

• I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Years
  • Three
  • Europe

• It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Security
  • Europe

• Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

  

  Yukiya Amano
  • Perspective
  • Europe
  • Iran

• Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Europe
  • Magnificent

• I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Me

• I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • History
  • Funny

• When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Europe
  • Phenomenon
  • Operas

• Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Europe
  • Take

• The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Europe
  • Turkey
  • Nationalism

• We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Europe
  • Too

• It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Feel
  • New York
  • Europe

• And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Nature
  • City
  • Sea

• In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Long
  • Certain
  • Break

• Above the 800 a day threshold we would have to produce the car in Europe. We will reach a decision in May, but we cannot say yet in which country it might be produced.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • Country
  • May
  • Decision

• The risk of confrontation with the use of nuclear weapons in Europe is higher than in the 1980s.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Risk
  • Europe
  • Confrontation

• In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Long
  • Death

• Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Giving

• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • World
  • American

• Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Christian
  • Nations
  • Buddhist

• Take the risk that you’ll end up regretting your speech, because it’s better than regretting your silence.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Risk
  • Silence
  • Speech

• I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Europe
  • Laura
  • Nki