Matthew Vasquez (Matthew Logan Vasquez) Quotes

I’m an optimist, I can write about tough times. You get sad, you put a name on your sadness and then you move on.

Matthew Vasquez

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• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Men
  • Play

• I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Design

• If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Freedom
  • Care
  • Injustice

• I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.

  

  Jack Black
  • Many
  • How
  • Drop

• Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Positive

• I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Wish

• The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Life
  • Long
  • Laugh

• The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Art
  • Pretty
  • Looks

• oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo? Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school." "Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • God
  • Trying
  • School

• Don't play his game. Play yours.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Game
  • Play

• I tried to come out of the box and I stumbled a little bit. I kind of tweaked it, but it's OK.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Tweaked

• Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Media

• Our hope as analysts and investors is that this is the beginning of a process and not isolated cases.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • Hope
  • Beginning
  • Process

• As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Long

• We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying local economies, and funding armed insurgencies and terrorist syndicates. If we do not find solutions to this crisis now, there will be little habitat left beyond sparse areas of national parks that will serve as glorified zoos to small pockets of remaining animals.

  

  David Jeremiah Barron
  • Animals
  • Solutions
  • Terrorist

• Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Selfish
  • Switzerland
  • Romantic Region

• I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Desire
  • Gay
  • Melancholy

• It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • See
  • Sadness
  • Jews

• I’m an optimist, I can write about tough times. You get sad, you put a name on your sadness and then you move on.

  

  Matthew Vasquez
  • Sadness
  • Optimist
  • Move On