Richard Matheson Quotes

I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

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• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  

  Dan Rather
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Alligator

• Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Political
  • Expressing
  • Darling

• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • You
  • Me
  • Tell

• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Myself

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Friendship
  • Mask

• Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Work
  • Look
  • Well

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Me
  • Animals

• Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Period

• A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Love
  • Investment
  • Only

• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Enemy
  • Enough

• TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Different
  • Want
  • Look

• I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Life
  • Women
  • Single

• A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Meet

• I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Want
  • My Life

• I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• The disappointment of losing is huge.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Losing
  • Disappointment
  • Huge

• I love shopping! I look for new shopping portals. I keep buying a lot of stuff online. I don't follow any one person per se, but if I feel that the particular wear will look good on me, I pick it up without thinking.

  

  Krystle D'Souza
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it - create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Up
  • World
  • True

• I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Films

• I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Reader