Chief Dan Mathews Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is not enough for me to consider it a drawing of them. I hope I have gotten better at capturing things quicker in a drawing. — Jason Polan

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines. — Desiree Rogers

Problems rarely exist at the level at which they are expressed. If you are arguing for more than ten minutes then you are probably not discussing the real conflict. — Kare Anderson

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be. — David Eagleman

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor. — Saint Augustine

It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose - well, you didn't know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes - make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible. — Aldous Huxley

My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves. — Newt Gingrich

Our knowledge about ourselves is our least reliable knowledge. Yet, so thoroughly do we ordinarily champion our own cause that it is acknowledged effective to believe that a person who deems it impossible to any further champion his/her own cause must be guilty. — Jesse Ball

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal. — Benigno Aquino III

Any day that starts off in a demon-filled bar in a casino designed to look like Hell isn't likely to turn out well. — Karen Chance

The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me. — Davis Miller

I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet? — Koren Zailckas

My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind, which ignored what it was not interested in. — L.P. Hartley

Hit her with a hammer
teeth smashed in
red tongues twitching
look inside a skeleton — P.J. Harvey