Matthies Builders Quotes & Sayings

I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it. — Jacqueline Woodson

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer. — Robert Boyle

I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between. — Nadja Spiegelman

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan. — Chris Benz

I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one. — Audrey Tautou

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not. — Lord David Cecil

You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and during this one life, you should put your words down, and make your voice heard, and then let others hear your voice. And the only way any of that's going to happen is if you actually do it. People can't read the thoughts in your head. They can only read the thoughts you put down, carefully and with great love, on the page.
So you have to do it, goddamnit. — Dave Eggers

All Alek knew was that he missed Seth differently from everything else in the world he left behind. — Michael Barakiva

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die. — Scott Berkun

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Sam Walton