Matamore 7 Quotes & Sayings

I'm not anorexic, bullimic, or any other "ic" you can think of. — Mikey Way

If we abide in love for God we will be forever united with Him and with His kingdom of love. — Sunday Adelaja

If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural. — A. W. Tillinghast

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Perhaps depression can best be described as emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will, and then breaks free of its externals. — Andrew Solomon

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable. — Clayton Christensen

They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there. — Adam Petty

One cannot be taught to write. One can only learn to write by writing - and reading. Reading good books written by real artists - until you understand why they are good. — Truman Capote

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you're not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you ... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character. — Michael Ondaatje

Why is it," Jonathan puzzled, "that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard? — Richard Bach

MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on,
I worry that it might get scratched. — Tony Kushner

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man. — Gregory Maguire

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. — Carla Bley

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately. — Chang-rae Lee