Mathews Quotes & Sayings

Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty. — Dan Mathews

As someone who was gay bashed as a kid, I learned firsthand how a lot of people only feel good about themselves when they sense that someone or something is on a lower rung than they are. This inferiority complex drives racism and sexism as well as outdated attitudes about animals. — Dan Mathews

Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I'm gay: well, the fact that I'm flamboyantly gay. — Ross Mathews

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV. — Ross Mathews

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus. — Ross Mathews

It's a well-known fact that the TV camera adds 10 pounds. I don't want to say that I've been calling my Jenny Craig consultant a lot, but I'm pretty sure I'm the first spokesperson whom they've considered filing a restraining order against. — Ross Mathews

I always see celebs in very weird spots. I don't always go to fancy-shmancy places, but I see celebs at coffee shops or random stores, when you're looking for a sweater and turn around like, 'OMG, that's Fred Savage!' — Ross Mathews

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. — Harry Mathews

I listened to a lot of The Stooges when I was writing "Oscillate," imagining our hero moving through his days naturally embodying the spirit of a real punk. I say real, because today's idea of 'punk as fashion accessory' doesn't even register with him, it's more about the way he engages with the world. — Travis Mathews

Life is Hard,wear a Helmet — Eric Mathews

I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved. — Francine Mathews

Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally and without parents, particularly in Texas], and things like, we find smallpox in an NIH lab, after 50 years? Why didn't you find it, like, five weeks ago or three years ago? There was thing after thing. But the big ones were [dealing with] the Ebola [outbreak], the unaccompanied children. [It was] perhaps a bigger challenge than I had calculated on my yellow pad as I was thinking about this role. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. — Harry Mathews

Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked. — Michael Winter

I'd love to host a game show one day. I love giving things away. — Ross Mathews

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him. — Harlan Mathews

Design is where science and art break even. — Robin Mathews

All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships. — F. David Mathews

What a man does is the real test of what a man is. — William Mathews

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. — Harry Mathews

I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of exceeds passion - it's a vocation ... I obviously knew that there were certainly some challenges that I would be taking on both with the work and the politics. [But] I probably did not have the right expectation level with regard to the number and volume of crises that would occur. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Real beauty is never vain. — Ellen Buckingham Mathews

One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

These guys like each other almost as much as they like themselves. — Josh Mathews

Not only is he my broadcast partner, but we travel together so much, he's become like my best friend. — Josh Mathews

"Oscillate Wildly" is in many ways a story of first love and how it challenges our hero's guarded sense of what's possible. — Travis Mathews

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. — Harry Mathews

I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio. — Travis Mathews

Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world leaders keeping their promises, and developing countries committing resources while listening ardently to the voice of the small farmer - is needed to bring big results and prosperity to the world's poor. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I thought of what might be, if only the people who have too much money would help those who have too little! — Ellen Buckingham Mathews

Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't. — Harry Mathews

Can we have a conversation about the substance? That's what I welcome. We're happy to have those conversations if there are places where people think there can be improvements. We want competition in the system, so let's talk about that. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I've always said that my ideal reader would be someone who after finishing one of my novels would throw it out the window, presumably from an upper floor of an apartment building in New York, and by the time it had landed would be taking the elevator down to retrieve it. — Harry Mathews

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. — Harry Mathews

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited. — Harry Mathews

Some days are better than other days
A good day is getting 10 royalties and 10 great reviews — Ray Mathews

If the powers that be really knew how much time I spent thinking about and researching celebrities, they probably wouldn't let me anywhere near the red carpet. But, please promise not to tell them. I'm harmless, I swear. — Ross Mathews

I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews. — Rebecca Donovan

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Getting arrested is fun. — Dan Mathews

What I love most about achieving whatever I've achieved is that the Seattle Seahawks follow me on Twitter! — Ross Mathews

I'm Fred Mathews — Carolyn Keene

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny. — Ross Mathews

If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing. — Shailer Mathews

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words. — T.S. Mathews

I know I'm not exactly Prince Charming material right now. Zipper-head, gimpy hand and all the rest." There was a tremor in his voice and he cleared his throat. "The thing is, I seem to have fallen in love with you, Leah Mathews. Bad timing, I know. But there it is. And I really need to know if there might be a chance that maybe you feel the same way about me. — Sarah Mayberry

[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp ... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages! — William Mathews

Ross [Mathews] was my favorite for years so I am glad he is part of the family. I have stayed in touch and connected with many over the years. I am very lucky that way. — Michelle Visage

I'll talk to Howard Stern about anything. I listen to him every day. I love him. When you go on his show, you kind of have to be an open book. — Ross Mathews

At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Do you know that fat little guy from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander. And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of 'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens. If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken. — Dan Mathews

I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too ... I have an idea or two. — Ross Mathews

This, then, is the global significance of Chungking Mansions. It is a building of the periphery within a city of the core, a city located between the developing world's manufacturing hub and its poorest nether regions. It is a ghetto of middle-class striving within a city of wealthier middle-class striving, viewing its denizens with fear and scorn yet letting business as usual be the law of the day. Chungking — Gordon Mathews

Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don't need a net because you can catch yourself. — Ross Mathews

Without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity? — Ellen Buckingham Mathews

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old. — Harry Mathews

When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year. — Eddie Mathews

After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. — Harry Mathews

I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering, rinsing, and repeating with Pert Plus. As I was belting out the chorus to my favorite song from 'Funny Girl,' 'Oh my man, I love him so, he'll never know ... ' it hit me. — Ross Mathews

HE WHO LOVES NOT, LIVES NOT! HE WHO LIVES BY THE LIFE CANNOT DIE. — Basil Mathews

She's saving the world one fashion disaster at a time! — Ross Mathews

I told him that when I was young I had seen two dogs copulating in a field, and whenever I contemplate myself having intercourse, this was the image that automatically came into my head. — Arthur Mathews

My voice is so high-pitched, only gay dogs can hear it. — Ross Mathews

When everyone lives only for self, life doesn't work. — Erika Mathews

I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull. — Francine Mathews

You do need prayer, more than you know, ' Carita said softly. 'Prayer is the keynote. Prayer isn't the preparation to accomplish the purposes of Adon Olam. It is the accomplishment of His purposes. Great works are done through prayer. — Erika Mathews

I'm doing this for me. — Jessica Mathews

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better. — Harry Mathews

I started walking rather than driving to get my coffee. I liked it so much, I do it for 45 minutes every day ... You know those annoying people who are like, 'If I don't work out I feel ... ugh'? I might be becoming one of those people. — Ross Mathews

I've never dated anyone because they were vegetarian, just like I'm gay but don't only go to gay bars. I hang out with people because they are fun, smart, and kind, and if they happen to be veg I'm thrilled. — Dan Mathews

I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it. — Ross Mathews

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach. — Harry Mathews

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur. — Dan Mathews

I did enjoy the broadcasting work of King, Punk and Josh Mathews last Monday on Raw. Josh is a hard working young man who does his homework and he did well with his opportunity to sit at the grown up table on Raw. — Jim Ross

Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted
and misquoted
by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile. — T.S. Mathews

Keep the faith." -- Jon Bon Jovi — Michele L. Mathews

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there. — Eddie Mathews

My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career ... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller. — Ross Mathews

I got to have about 15 minutes with Michelle Obama, and that was a big deal because you're like, 'Wow, I'm part of living history.' You know? I definitely think she could take me in an arm wrestling match. — Ross Mathews

I've always thought it would be fun to have a vegan campaign aimed at gays called "Don't be a Dairy Queen." — Dan Mathews

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. — Harry Mathews

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. — Harry Mathews

I grew up in this little farm town, and I've always dreamt of Hollywood and pop culture, and then I suddenly found myself plopped in the middle of it. — Ross Mathews

That's a beautiful purse. I carry a satchel. — Josh Mathews

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences. — F. David Mathews

Kaelan, the work is His. That means the methods must be His. The timing must be His. And above all things, it must be bathed in prayer for His blessing. No step can be taken without Him. — Erika Mathews

I actually quite love following Lisa Rinna on Twitter, because she tweets like I tweet, which is like, 'Just dropped off the kids!' Or, 'Hey, here's a great sale at the grocery store!' It's such real life, and to me she's like a celebrity - she looks like Hollywood to me - that following her makes me feel like, stars are just like us! — Ross Mathews

As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Back in the eighties, people thought a vegan was someone from Vegas. It's a different world now and I feel lucky to have been a part of the revolution, both for animal rights and gay rights. — Dan Mathews

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. — William Mathews

Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city. — Harry Mathews

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't. — Ross Mathews