Richard Matheson quote: "I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal."

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON

Heaven would never be heaven without you.
RICHARD MATHESON

We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths....
RICHARD MATHESON

We've got to start spending money in other places,
RICHARD MATHESON

At the last meeting, I was opposed to the expenditures at the Police Department,
RICHARD MATHESON

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul...
RICHARD MATHESON

That which you believe becomes your world.
RICHARD MATHESON

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like...
RICHARD MATHESON

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because...
RICHARD MATHESON

Let this hell be our heaven.
RICHARD MATHESON

Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We’d parked the camper just ab...
RICHARD MATHESON

People are not punished for their deeds but by them
RICHARD MATHESON

Everything is mental,
RICHARD MATHESON

I couldn’t tell you, Robert, what the higher ramifications are of being soul mates. I can tell you...
RICHARD MATHESON

…Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good...
RICHARD MATHESON

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to wit...
RICHARD MATHESON

(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along wi...
RICHARD MATHESON

Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well...
RICHARD MATHESON

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?
RICHARD MATHESON

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ul...
RICHARD MATHESON

As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The ...
RICHARD MATHESON

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rat...
RICHARD MATHESON

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn�...
RICHARD MATHESON

Chris:I forgive you.
Annie: For killing my children and my sweet husband?
Chris: For being...
RICHARD MATHESON

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contente...
RICHARD MATHESON

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.
RICHARD MATHESON

Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw th...
RICHARD MATHESON

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer pos...
RICHARD MATHESON

…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a pe...
RICHARD MATHESON

He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you ...
RICHARD MATHESON

Come out, Neville.
RICHARD MATHESON

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its ...
RICHARD MATHESON

'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female box...
RICHARD MATHESON

It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people...
RICHARD MATHESON

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our he...
RICHARD MATHESON

In less than an hour I have to hold class for a group of idiot freshmen. And, on a desk in the livin...
RICHARD MATHESON

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And w...
RICHARD MATHESON

You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has ...
RICHARD MATHESON

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's a...
RICHARD MATHESON

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.<...
RICHARD MATHESON

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")
RICHARD MATHESON

Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing o...
RICHARD MATHESON

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.
RICHARD MATHESON

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.
RICHARD MATHESON

He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books...
RICHARD MATHESON

You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the ...
RICHARD MATHESON

Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he kn...
RICHARD MATHESON

Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half t...
RICHARD MATHESON

Maybe I can do some writing then. The phrase made him sick. It had no meaning anymore. Like a word t...
RICHARD MATHESON

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you...
RICHARD MATHESON

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of fo...
RICHARD MATHESON

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most...
HANS MATHESON

Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period...
HANS MATHESON

That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, yo...
HANS MATHESON

When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They ...
HANS MATHESON

You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible m...
TIM MATHESON

This is a great opportunity for smaller companies to get real protection for their valuable business...
BEN MATHESON

This price point helps make enterprise-quality technology affordable to a wider range of businesses....
BEN MATHESON

By joining the Advanced Infrastructure Systems Management competency, Microsoft Solutions Partners w...
BEN MATHESON

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity ...
TIM MATHESON

I strongly disagree with the conclusion that 44,000 tons of dangerous high level waste can be stored...
JIM MATHESON

Now more than ever it's not the time for Congress to be raising its pay,
JIM MATHESON

This is an industry, in many respects, that targets children, ... I'd like to get rid of it all toge...
JIM MATHESON

We ought to hold hearings and learn from this experience. The system failed at the beginning on the ...
JIM MATHESON

We learned in 2003 that the federal government was headed towards researching, funding, developing a...
JIM MATHESON

I believe wildlife will benefit as a result, ... finds the appropriate balance by both defending end...
JIM MATHESON

This bill will serve as a strong measure to prevent frivolous lawsuits.
JIM MATHESON

We've said let's ease our way into this and give people time to adjust.
JIM MATHESON

Instead of building and maintaining collaborative supplier strategies, Toyota's U.S. competitors see...
JIM MATHESON

What's also nice is that late in the game, Sam can throw a pitch that a batter hasn't seen yet. She ...
JIM MATHESON

Atmospheric testing was a dark period in our history for many Americans and questions about long-ter...
JIM MATHESON

The longer I'm in office, the tougher it is for anyone to make a competitive race,
JIM MATHESON

Clearly, the Federal Emergency Management Agency didn't do its job. Now we have to find out why, and...
JIM MATHESON

recognized that Utah and Nevada should be united against the arrogance of the East Coast dumping its...
JIM MATHESON

Never before in the history of sports has there been such an emphasis on public safety,
JIM MATHESON

There is no room for partisan grandstanding on this matter, ... If wrongdoing is confirmed it ought ...
JIM MATHESON

I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they be...
HANS MATHESON

Steamboat's strength is not downhill, for lack of experience, but our athletes skied very well in th...
DUSTY MATHESON

All of the Steamboat athletes moved up from their start positions in both the downhill and super-G.
DUSTY MATHESON

As a whole, Steamboat athletes had a great week, and they skied well. Everyone competed at their hig...
DUSTY MATHESON

It seems that all the hard work these athletes have put into their season is paying off, and everyon...
DUSTY MATHESON

It felt good. I'm getting stronger each meet. It was nice (to win), but I wish Wes was better. He pu...
SEAN MATHESON

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH

Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities ...
RICHARD HAMMOND

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how...
RICHARD JEFFERIES

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought...
RICHARD BRANSON

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinkin...
RICHARD SERRA

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON

God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ...
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
RICHARD MASUR

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an...
RICHARD MASUR

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A...
RICHARD MASUR

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
RICHARD MASUR

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sale...
RICHARD MASUR

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training grou...
RICHARD MASUR

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wea...
RICHARD SIMMONS

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message ...
RICHARD GRASSO

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless...
RICHARD ENGEL

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought t...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX

For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early y...
RICHARD CORLISS

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...
RICHARD COURANT

Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor u...
RICHARD MOURDOCK

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
RICHARD LEDERER

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON

I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance abo...
RICHARD CORLISS

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
RICHARD GERE

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to tu...
RICHARD LOUV

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia...
RICHARD SERRA

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR

There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA

The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL

On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL

...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL

It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 20...
RICHARD ENGEL

When the Furies were released in the Middle East, an evil emerged beyond my worst imaginings.
...
RICHARD ENGEL

the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ...
RICHARD ENGEL

This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL

Ironically enough, the United States had almost nothing to do with the age-old conflict between Isla...
RICHARD ENGEL

The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL

Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL

These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL

When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL

MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL

...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN

As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER

Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER

Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER

Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER

I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal.

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I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal.

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