Mattracks Quotes & Sayings

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books. — Erik Larson

This isn't how prophecies work ... This isn't how stories unfold ... Incompletely. — Rainbow Rowell

Programmers must avoid leaving false clues that obscure the meaning of code. — Robert C. Martin

When I first was on Big Time Rush, the TV show, I did a lot of silly things. Among the first episodes that came out, my buddies wanted to have a viewing party, so we turned it into a drinking game. Every time I did something dumb, we took a shot. We were hammered! — James Maslow

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world. — Joan Baez

If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.'
'But I don't want to argue. I think it's wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can't it'll be time to argue. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to. — Jenny Lewis

He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-"
You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?" I gasp in mock outrage.
For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies! — Tabitha Suzuma

While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they're pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity's baseline social contract. — Lauren Groff

Caught him grinning at her. Why do you purposely aggravate — Nora Roberts

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. — John Green

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms. — Jay Nixon

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

He loves me recklessly, to the missuse of everything else in his life. — C.D. Reiss