Mathin Quotes & Sayings

If you're built like a freight train, you can't drive around like a Volkswagen. — Clark Gillies

A pear is a failed apple. — George Carlin

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them. — Vernon Howard

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there. — Barbara Johnson

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible. — Oscar Robertson

But the happiness you hoped to win for me will never be mine. — Dodie Smith

During one wave, I suddenly found myself cramped over in front of my tent, stark naked, painful, liquid acidic craps, and, the humiliation of it all, surrounded by six elephants, silent, quizzical, polite, murmuring, almost solicitous, their trunks waving in the air investigating my actions and moans. They watched my agonized shitting as if it were an engrossing, silent Shakespearean tragedy performed in the round. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? — Florence Nightingale

Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7). — John Calvin

Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do."
"Oh," said Harry.
"You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought.
"Thanks," said Harry. — Robin McKinley

Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense. — W. H. Auden

Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn. — Robin McKinley

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough? — Julian Barnes

When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing. — Brenton Thwaites

I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.' — Rachel Cusk