Richard Matheson Quotes

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

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• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
  • World
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Me
  • Will
  • Big

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Funny

• I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Road
  • See
  • Cultures

• People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Money
  • High

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Pressure

• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• A library implies an act of faith.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Faith
  • Library
  • Act

• You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Art
  • Guy

• Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Home
  • Welcome
  • Page

• Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment if you don't consider you have responsibility in your suppliers' pollution?

  

  Ma Jun
  • Responsibility
  • Green
  • Commitment

• Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Truth
  • Like
  • Never

• The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Sun

• '20 million other white rappers emerge, but no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me!'

  

  Eminem
  • Sea

• I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Option

• People work so hard, and I want to keep that energy up, and you can spread that if you're the actor. But I'm also not able to turn it on and off like a faucet. A lot of what I'm called upon to play is violent or angry. When I'm messing around with the crew and making jokes, I remember, 'Oh, this is the guy I normally am.'

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I have a fascination with the nasty things people do to each other and the way relationships go wrong, and how there can be this very dark underbelly to seemingly normal, mundane domestic life. They're the stories in the newspapers I always find interesting. That's not a very nice thing to admit to, is it?

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Interesting

• I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Poor

• My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

  

  Joseph Bologna
  • Senior

• When DVD disappeared but before digital distribution came on strong, there were a few years where a movie that didn't get theatrical would just be gone.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Movie
  • Strong

• I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Generations