Mattermattered Quotes & Sayings

Mushari didn't see anything funny in that. He never saw anything funny in anything, so deeply immured was he by the utterly unplayful spirit of the law. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Who wills, Can.
Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives. — Anne McCaffrey

A successful direct action is like creating a good fantasy story. It's like a quest," Phillips said excitedly in the introduction. "There is a conflict, compelling characters, a good plan, build up, twists and turns, adversity, the climax, and then the win — Anonymous

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. — Nicholas Sparks

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality. — Mike Rogers

People who think literature should be Serious - should serve as a blueprint for a rocket that will never take off - are malevolent at best, anti-Semitic at worst. — Gary Shteyngart

In these lands you're a name to avoid, you're bound for defeat, you're a sign pointing out those who must be destroyed. At — Wislawa Szymborska

There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world. — Joe Rohde

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed. — D.H. Lawrence

It's easier to let fear win. Even though love covers all things, fear is what keeps us silent and keeps words unsaid. Fear keeps us standing in one place. Eventually, when it wins, it means we never got the courage to say what we needed to say. But the words are needed. They won't always fix things or mend things or make things better. They won't bring someone back. They won't stop a good-bye. They won't be perfect. But they'll be true. And maybe that is all we have ever needed from one another: true words written with a love that feels too big to pin down to a page with measly little syllables. — Hannah Brencher

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it. — Jerry Goldsmith

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be ... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces. — Noam Chomsky

Pickles are people too — Clayton

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns. — Irving Stone

The name's Bond. James Omar Bond. — Eoin Colfer

The woman in front of him was perfect. Her sweet curved lips and flushed cheeks. The way her long eyelashes batted when she blinked and the incredible scent of cinnamon from her soft skin, she was the only thing that he'd finally gotten right. She was the only thing that mattermattered. No matter how far away he could run, the image of her would always be in at the back of his mind. — Diyar Harraz