Harry Mathews Quotes

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

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• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Always
  • Football
  • Pressure

• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Weapons
  • Favor
  • Bat

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Singing
  • I Can
  • Means

• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • People
  • Care
  • Foundation

• I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Permanent

• It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Truth
  • Baby
  • Better

• When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Story

• I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Happy
  • Poetry

• I hyper-analyze everything; I'm always in my head. Those moments where you don't think and you're just part of the environment did not come easily to me, but it was those moments and highs that I chased.

  

  Verite
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Environment

• Be very nervous of the shaky hands.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Hands
  • Very
  • Nervous

• My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Health

• Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Kids
  • Shopping

• People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • People
  • Up
  • Rip

• You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Nice

• Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Why
  • Party
  • Japanese

• If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Football, particularly Brazilian football, is about being happy, and that's what tricks do. It's part of our culture, at the end of the day, though, it's all about winning.

  

  Neymar
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Football

• We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Law
  • Passions
  • Weapon

• Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Respect
  • Child
  • Door

• I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.

  

  Linda Evans
  • Good
  • Hand

• My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • School
  • Mother
  • City

• My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Mother
  • Thriller