Mattinglys Quotes & Sayings

When the bottles hit they tinkled and jangled noisily; but Eddie did not hear them because of the overriding - yet distant, detached, far-off - sound of his own screaming. — Walter Tevis

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle. — Abraham Lincoln

That love we have for mothers has to be cut with vinegar, and maybe even acid. Otherwise, it will overwhelm us. She will overwhelm us. — Stephanie Powell Watts

It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe. — Glenn Greenwald

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. — Josef Koudelka

Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret. — Peter Agre

With respect to the ocean being the heart of our blue planet: We are often asked, 'How much protection is enough?' We can only answer with another question: How much of your heart is worth protecting? — Sylvia Earle

It's not about the taking part. It's about the winning. It's about the hours you sacrifice in order to achieve your victory, and only you know what victory is for you, and only you know what it took to get you there. — David Alejandro Fearnhead

Take the competition seriously, but not yourself. — Richard Branson

*** Teacher: "Why are you on the floor?" Johnny: "Because you said to do this math problem without tables! — Various

In a rule-based society, we often choose efficiency over value, but, while rules-based governance systems may often serve well the values of fairness and representation, their seeming efficiency hides a deep and important flaw: We often rely on rules when they are not, in fact, the most efficient or effective solution to getting the result that we desire. — Dov Seidman

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care. — Alma Guillermoprieto