Matteus Quotes & Sayings

This is no laughing matter, the man is also a close relation to the Emperor."

"How close?"

"I believe they are already drawing lots to see who gets to dangle your intestines from the city flag pole," Cosimo glared at Matteus, but even the threat of draw and quartering rolled off his massive back like a duck in water. — Sabrina Zbasnik

I shot him a broad smile, a smile wide enough to present him with a good view of the wire braces that caged my teeth. Although they gave me the look of a dirigible with the skin off, Father always liked being reminded that he was getting his money's worth. — Alan Bradley

Naked Mr. America, burning frantic with self bone love, screams out: My asshole confounds the Louvre! I fart ambrosia and shit pure gold turds! My cock spurts soft diamonds in the morning sunlight! — William S. Burroughs

I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer. — Adam DeVine

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event. — Dennis Hastert

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old. — Joan Larkin

Particularity leads to peculiarity and then to pathological behavior. The three Ps. It is very insidious. You would eventually end up in a box. If you try to control your environment, it will control you. And everyone else around you will always have to be making adjustments to your maddening idiosyncracies ... You are beginning to enslave yourself with your fussiness. — Susan Trott

When in a superior bargaining position, one should never make the first move. — Jim Starlin

I could have gotten away with it, I would have given her a 24-karat gold necklace that read Property of Quinn Sullivan — Penny Reid

The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship. — John Piper

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable. — Lily Tomlin

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature. — Talib Kweli

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art? — Barbara Kruger