Matalos Quotes & Sayings

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day. — Alia Shawkat

It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength ... the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold. — William Morley Punshon

A classical LP was playing ...
... Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal.
But if the right words existed
the music wouldn't need to. — David Mitchell

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable. — Frank Rich

Denser cities are smarter and more productive — Richard Florida

Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge. — Elaine Ostrach Chaika

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man. — Marshall McLuhan

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend. — Stephen Crane

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Lowell's best friend was the heroically moustached art director of a tobacco magazine that published in the same building where Lowell worked at plumbing. His name was Harry Balmer, and despite the evidence of his moustache he was nervous, compulsive, and wracked with small fears. He looked his best from across a wide room; the closer you got to him, the more he seemed to fall apart into a mass of twitches and gnawed finernails and the clearer it became that this big, smart-looking moustache was a kind of bush he was trying to hide behind. — L.J. Davis

...and then I ripped his lungs out. — Anne Taintor

A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world. — Ellen G. White