Harry Mathews Quotes

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

Harry Mathews

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Good
  • Family
  • You

• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Brain
  • Start
  • You Can Do It

• On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • Mountain
  • Battle

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• Ultimately love is everything.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • For Him
  • Love Is
  • Ultimately

• We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Nothing
  • Because
  • Little

• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Professional
  • Rap

• There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Influence

• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mother

• Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Give
  • Museum

• The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • People
  • Great
  • Know

• I don't really write all that well with others.

  

  Washed Out
  • Write
  • Well
  • Others

• I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.

  

  James Turrell
  • Live
  • Reality

• I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.

  

  Jeffrey Tate

• I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.

  

  Tuppence Middleton
  • Time
  • School
  • Funny

• I never thought about leaving a tennis legacy. I always thought about leaving a legacy of fulfillment, living out your dreams, and giving back.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Dream
  • Giving
  • Leaving

• In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

  Biz Stone
  • Leadership

• My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • School
  • Dream
  • Football Coach