Matterson Community Quotes & Sayings

I'll take a nice assist any day over points. — Deron Williams

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason. — Leonardo Da Vinci

People may call what happens at midlife "a crisis," but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're "supposed" to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are. — Brene Brown

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. — Junot Diaz

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead. — Bob Hope

I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it. — Debra Jo Rupp

People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple. — Ada Yonath

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come. — Leonard Cohen

Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion. — Tom Ford

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive. — Tamba Hali

Whatever you do, listen for your inner voice. Do not ignore it. — Pooja Ruprell

Last was man. One by one God judged them all; Those who were his He saved for his pleasure,
Those who were Satan's he stomped them as they sprawled,
Tossed - t' burn with their family together.
I was last. Alone I stood. Before God of all.
I wasn't his. No! I still wasn't his.
It's all I want'd! Still I lost him - still I'd fall! Still I lost. No, I'd never be his!
Angels grabbed my hands and feet and flung me with th' damned,
To lie and let th' fire burn and through our lungs expand. — Jonas Perez