Harry Mathews Quotes

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

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• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Model
  • Illusion

• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • See
  • Only

• Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Peace
  • Israel

• I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Want
  • Engage

• I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • People
  • Government
  • Door

• It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Theatre

• What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

  

  James Caan
  • People
  • Important
  • Humble

• It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

  

  Jeffrey Bernard
  • People
  • Drunk

• People don't take enough advantage of the refrigerator door.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • People
  • Door

• In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.

  

  David Boies
  • People

• Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• I would be heartbroken if I ever thought that people in the Jewish community thought that Britain was no longer a safe place for them.

  

  David Cameron
  • People
  • Community

• Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • Good
  • Study

• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Mother

• I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don't always see that in other artists.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Work
  • Book

• True love is born from understanding.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Understanding
  • Born
  • True Love

• I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • People
  • Culture