Mathis Quotes & Sayings

I probably always will be. But I've been mad all my life, and I finally figured out that I couldn't keep carrying that with me. It's too heavy and I'm too tired. Time will take care of it, like it does everything else. — Ayana Mathis

Fine doesn't call before dawn. — Ayana Mathis

She had been with her share of schemers and men who were forever building castles in the sky. All of those dreams made out of clouds; when it rained - and it always did - they were left with nothing but the soggy shirts on their backs. — Ayana Mathis

Some things you can't apologize for, you just have to try to get around them," Hattie replied. "For your own sake too, so you can have a little peace. — Ayana Mathis

There were too many disappointments to name and too much heartbreak. They were beyond punishment or forgiveness, beyond what they had inflicted on each other, beyond love. — Ayana Mathis

She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. 'I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himself. It's about the bomb. It's a fantastic story. — Ian Fleming

It takes a long time for a heart to heal. The next time passion comes along you won't be so eager to respond. Love and pain go hand in hand and it can change a person forever. — Kate Mathis

One keeps looking out for innovation in IPL, but of late it hasn't been all that obvious. Lionel Richie as an opening act? Johnny Mathis must have been busy. Matthew Hayden's Mongoose? Looks a bit like Bob Willis' bat with the "flow-through holes"; Saint Peter batting mitts are surely overdue a revival. The only genuinely intriguing step this year, bringing the IPL to YouTube, was forced on Modi by the collapse of Setanta; otherwise what Modi presents as 'innovation' is merely expansion by another name, in the number of franchises and the number of games. — Gideon Haigh

Good. He smiled. The truth is supposed to hurt! — R.A. Mathis

One thing I am learning is to slow down. Multitasking is great, but I when try to do everything at warp speed I just end up with typos and stress. — Ayana Mathis

Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful. I don't reckon you got no place like that. — Ayana Mathis

I was full of myth, which is to say full of an idea. — Cleopatra Mathis

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page. — Ayana Mathis

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority. — Johnny Mathis

The ordeals of others ...
prepare us, and
later become the compass ...
in our time of ordeal. — John-Talmage Mathis

At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity
like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view. — Ayana Mathis

Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you. — John Madden

Do not ever give up trying - because eventually you will win." Judge Greg Mathis — Greg Mathis

The butterflies were still alive in the Mason jar. August turned to her and said, "We gon' make it through, Hattie." She snatched the jar from the table and hurled it at the wall behind August. The two of them watched the butterflies, stunned and struggling in the broken glass.O — Ayana Mathis

It was important to do what needed doing, no matter the day or the circumstance. — Ayana Mathis

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice. — Johnny Mathis

She wished the man outside really were Thomas, so she and Billups could again have the same enemy and the same fear.O — Ayana Mathis

I think I'm going to skip all of my classes today because I need a "me" day. The problem with "me" days is that I need them four times a week. The problem with me is that I'm very smart and very capable (or so I've been told) but my laziness hinders me. Laziness. They forgot to add procrastination, self-destruction, and the inability to leave my bed to the list. The problem with me is that I've dealt with this before but have no idea what to do next. I should email my past teachers and ask them what I did after I sent them messages excusing my week-long absences from class due to "personal reasons." I should stop scratching my hand in case my mom asks me if I'm okay again. I am okay. I am doing fine. But I have an itch that I cannot place, an itch that changes locations when my fingers find it. The problem with me is that I will focus on it completely until it goes away. The problem with this feeling is that it never goes away. It has always been one large itch that I cannot place. — Lora Mathis

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access. — Ayana Mathis

There is a particular kind of afternoon sun that exists only in autumn. A golden light drapes itself over the world of that hour. It falls through the afternoon sky, fine and faint as a swirl of cigarette smoke caught in the wind, nearly transparent. So sweet, that light, insisting softly, goldly against the windows. — Ayana Mathis

God doesn't come to sit on the porch and sip lemonade. He comes to take over. — Ayana Mathis

His soul was susceptible to god's whimsy, just as his body was susceptible to any opportunistic thing that might hurt it. If he'd known how to pray, Six would have asked God to take his gift away. — Ayana Mathis

Life isn't fair. It doesn't make sense. This unfairness is felt by everyone, from the Las Vegas tunnel dweller all the way to the executive in the high-rise. To some, these "unfair" experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life. — John-Talmage Mathis

We're going to start with the injury report, obviously. Manning, Clark, Addai, Reggie Wayne, Freeney, Mathis, Brackett - all those guys will not play. Oh, hold up. That was my wish list for Santa Claus. — Rex Ryan

Oh I never fake it... I make it a point never to reward bad behavior — Nikki Mathis Thompson

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do. — Johnny Mathis

The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else! — Ayana Mathis

Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross — Johnny Mathis

Now, we struggle, brothers and sisters, and we strive. We have our trials and our tribulations but we are blessed. We go to bed, praise Jesus, and we rise again in the morning. And if that's not a blessing, I don't know what is. — Ayana Mathis

Six understood in that instant that he had something the ministers wanted and it had given him power among them. He had never been powerful among men. — Ayana Mathis

Don't allow past experiences to be forgotten.
Hold them close. — John-Talmage Mathis

Don't forget:
Ruts aren't that much different ...
from graves. — John-Talmage Mathis

I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding. — Ayana Mathis

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity. — Johnny Mathis

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work. — Johnny Mathis

His pain was his most precious and secret possession, and Six held on to it as fiercely as a jewel robbed from a corpse. — Ayana Mathis

Marrying Mathis made sense. It would solve all their problems. Except her problem of wanting Jorgen. But it hurt too much to think about that. — Melanie Dickerson

Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep ...
trump the need to preserve your credit score, or
purchase a new gizmo. — John-Talmage Mathis

You ought to go now before she wakes up, Hattie said. She handed her daughter to Pearl. I'm in the floor, she thought. — Ayana Mathis

Precisely in the most desperate moments, when having the masculine role feels most unfair, when we're our most tired, running on fumes, and need to keep providing in all these aspects, this is when the provision of God tastes the sweetest. — David Mathis

The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.' — Mathis Wackernagel

do not be so quick to say "okay" it is alright to disagree with the action yet love the person. — P.M. MATHIS

Preparation:
allows you to prevent ...
the intensity of the ordeal. — John-Talmage Mathis

[Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or Mexican syntax. So you keep it in because it's adding something unique. — Sandra Cisneros

I think she's really finished with me this time. I'll never be finished with her. — Ayana Mathis

I live by the belief that if you work hard and do the best you can, at the end of the day sleep comes easily for the dollar that was earned honestly. It was a lesson instilled by my parents. It was a lesson that I have always followed and found to be quite accurate. — John-Talmage Mathis

The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam." — Sandra Cisneros

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity. — Ayana Mathis

Hattie clambered from the train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud, the dream of Philadelphia round as a marble in her mouth and the fear of it a needle in her chest. — Ayana Mathis

Pain is not an evolutionary error. — Mathis Wackernagel

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle. — Ayana Mathis

When I was younger, I was told that there is too much inside me. That I have feelings where others have bone. At the age of seven, a doctor tapped inside my head and asked, "Do you choke on memories from time to time? Do you cry for no good reason at all? Do words take a hammer to your head and crack your skull?" Yes, yes, yes, I nodded. "Then you've definitely got them," he said, as he checked off a box on his list. "Too many feelings. What a shame. Try not to keep them inside or you'll drown. — Lora Mathis

I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made. — Ayana Mathis

It seemed to him that every time he made one choice in his life, he said no to another. All of those things he could not do or be were huddled inside of him; they might spring up at any moment, and he would be hobbled with regret. — Ayana Mathis

Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources — Mathis Wackernagel

Maybe we have only a finite amount of love to give. We're born with our portion, and if we love and are not loved enough in return, it's depleted. — Ayana Mathis

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed. — Samantha Mathis

There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either. — R.A. Mathis

I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis. — Clay Aiken

It had been easy to be comfortable with each other when there was a glass wall between them. — Ayana Mathis

Until a job is outsourced or streamlined through an innovation, an employee is trained to operate robotically. This is what a brand is. — John-Talmage Mathis

It felt wrong for me to push Lady Luck to the side and for me to choose who ought to be 'lucky'. It didn't seem right. It wasn't fair. — John-Talmage Mathis

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. — Johnny Mathis

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl. — Samantha Mathis

I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf. — Johnny Mathis

Over half the population of Iraq is fifteen or younger. — R.A. Mathis

How soon Mathis had been proved right and how soon his own little sophistries had been exploded in his face! — Ian Fleming

A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind. — R.A. Mathis

You've had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness and curled into a fetal position. Regardless of how difficult this new ordeal may be, as with the others, this too will be overcome. It will make you stronger. — John-Talmage Mathis

I have looked at my father many times and wondered how he could stand knowing he was my mother's ruin. He was too weak to leave her. Mother should have thrown him out and saved them both, like Sissy was saving the two of us. — Ayana Mathis

I wonder if the brass understands that people are getting killed. — Ayana Mathis

The Lord brings us into this world naked, but I don't suppose he means us to stay that way — Ayana Mathis

When they arrived at his apartment, Allen's roommate Tim, was lying on the faux black leather sofa in the living room watching an NBA play-off game on their fifty-two inch flat-screen. Owen was barely over five feet tall with a pale complexion, buck teeth, kinky hair, and he wore thick glasses that made his eyes look like they were popping out at you in 3-D; but he was sweet as pie and had a heart of gold. — Monica Mathis-Stowe

Mother was a beautiful young woman; the house was too plain, too small to contain her. I watched her; for the first time I understood that she had an inner life that didn't have anything to do with me or my brothers and sisters. — Ayana Mathis

Hattie's children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee. — Ayana Mathis

I think that people have some sort of vision that everybody is moving towards perfection, and that there is some sort of set steps or something like that that you can move through to get to that place, and that that's sort of the project of being alive. — Ayana Mathis

Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to ...
conquer the difficulties of the present. — John-Talmage Mathis

You act like your whole life was one long January afternoon." Lawrence said. "It wouldn't do any good to go around with my head in the clouds. — Ayana Mathis

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow. — Ayana Mathis

Is it really necessary to reward the CEO with several million dollars? Why isn't it logical or common sense to pay the minimum-wage employee another quarter, give a quarterly fifty-dollar bonus, or even provide a two-hundred-dollar gas gift card? — John-Talmage Mathis

One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as it is something that comes to you, or that presents itself. — Ayana Mathis

Self-preservation - this is your new focus.
The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations.
Debt is hindsight. — John-Talmage Mathis

Every player eventually loses all their money. — John-Talmage Mathis

Hattie was like a lake of smooth, silvered ice, under which nothing could be seen or known. — Ayana Mathis

But she was gone, and Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching forward names, not looking back ones. The — Ayana Mathis

My casino experience is to someone else their experience with their employer, of how the company has elected to behave solely for greed, profits, and spite. But we shouldn't give up hope in such situations. We have an obligation to separate the justices from the injustices. We should hold these corporate neighbors accountable for the wrongs that they commit.
Someone has to. — John-Talmage Mathis

Life is about finding . . .
what works best for you. — John-Talmage Mathis

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency. — Mathis Wackernagel

Mathis turned off the radio and waved an affectionate farewell. The door slammed and silence settled on the room. Bond sat for a while by the window and enjoyed being alive. — Ian Fleming

So I resort back to such ideology: we all have a calling. We all have an ultimate purpose. On that is laid before us by destiny or one that is positioned in the crosshairs of our long-term goals. — John-Talmage Mathis

My God, but you are hard to love," Hattie — Ayana Mathis

Trust can be one of life's greatest rewards, but it can also be the cause for the most destruction in one's life. — John-Talmage Mathis

Listen to people; nothing is accomplished if you dismiss other viewpoints. And of most importance: be confident. Have confidence in yourself. Have confidence in your resume - in your skills and in your qualifications. Be willing to learn. — John-Talmage Mathis

This is what you have . . . that many don't: TIME — John-Talmage Mathis

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do. — Johnny Mathis