Modiri Matthews Quotes & Sayings

On this world you have the animals and they have as much right to be on this world as us; and it's man who is the reason they are pushed to extinction. They're killing them for their tusks and their horns, and these fucking idiots, they think claws will give them sex appeal and they get all fucking sissy on you. — Stephen Richards

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning. — Dar Williams

I have my welcome mat turned around backwards so when people leave they think they're going to a better place. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one. — Sarah Addison Allen

We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it. — Rush Limbaugh

Never underestimate the commercial value of mental illness. — Moriah Jovan

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel De Cervantes

What makes you think you're so special? Just because you're a teacher? What he was really saying was: You are so special. You are my teacher. Then teach me, help me, Hey, Teach, I'm lost - which way do I go? I'm tired of going up the down staircase. — Bel Kaufman

The more I live, the more I regret how little i know — Claude Monet

The one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death. — Socrates Trans. G.M.A. Grube

Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs, tossing grass up to heaven - as a distraction, not a prayer. That's not humility you see on our long final journeys: it's procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down. - DAN CHIASSON, The Elephant — Jodi Picoult