Harry Mathews Quotes

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Harry Mathews

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• I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trying
  • Inspired
  • Lyrics

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Great
  • Business
  • Kids

• Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Education
  • Support

• My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Father
  • Right
  • Said

• First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Training

• I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quae non intellegunt.

  

  Quintilian

• The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • Emotional
  • Simplicity

• If the enemy tortures, it defines their moral evil and all intelligence gleaned from such coercion is self-evidently false propaganda. If we do it, it isn't wrong, and it leads to good intelligence.Got that? And these people have the gall to describe their ideological opponents as moral relativists.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• If I hadn't an absolute faith in the harmony of creation, I wouldn't have tried for thirty years to express it in a mathematical formula. It is only man's consciousness of what he does with his mind that elevates him above the animals, and enables him to become aware of himself and his relationship to the universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Faith
  • Universe
  • Consciousness

• There is no 100 percent pre-nup.

  

  Patti Stanger

• While globalization will make the world smaller and more accessible, we must continue to appreciate its vibrant diversity.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • World
  • Diversity

• Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Giving

• My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Up
  • Why
  • Kids

• When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.

  

  James Cronin

• When you're from an unknown place, I think it's hard for you to believe it's possible. You think you have to go to L.A. or New York to make it, but I don't think that's true. I'm glad to be an example that you can make it from where you are. All you need is talent and hard work.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Work
  • Believe
  • True

• The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.

  

  Chris Raschka
  • Time

• There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • First
  • Possible
  • Overcome

• Now, to-day, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, 'OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Death
  • WASP society