Mattison Quotes & Sayings

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else ... — Julia Quinn

How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre. — Aron Nimzowitsch

If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man? — Laozi

The only reason no one ever did it with humans is because it seemed ethically dodgy, as well as completely unnecessary given the willingness of men to impregnate women every chance they got. — Neal Stephenson

When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school
I went to school for a long time
I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis ... — Alice Mattison

Isn't the point of music to move listeners?"
Mattison smiled. "No. The point of music is to wake listeners up. To break all our ready-made habits."
"And tradition?"
"Real composers make their own. — Richard Powers

the prudent person neither neglects important commitments nor gets overextended. — William C. Mattison III

Invention comes about when we let it, when we don't mind feeling stupid as we do it - it feels like what children do, it is what children do - when we clear a place for it, become quiet, and wait. — Alice Mattison

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage. — Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit. — Edgar Allan Poe

When a draft looks terrible, I don't try to convince myself that it's actually good or even that someday it will be, only that it's my job to work on it whether it's good or not. — Alice Mattison

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. — Horace

How Not to Talk to Your Kids, The inverse power of praise. — Mattison Grey

The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough. — Mitch Albom

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness ... perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality. — Kevyn Aucoin

Do not be contented with this unspeakable blessing for yourself alone - but publish abroad the story of the cross. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Hakeem: A wise man once said that suffering produces perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Andre: Since when did spouting masochism make one wise? And the sacraments of a bitter existence? Who deemed that a vaunted prize? Nihilistic philosophy only births more pain. It's fruitless to espouse folly, repackage it as wisdom, and spew it in a wise man's name. — Booker T. Mattison

Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected. — Joe Orton

Life is a canvas, use more color. — J.R. Mattison

A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move. — Johannes Stark