I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spo...
MATTHEW SWEET Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
MATTHEW STEWART I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
MATTHEW BRODERICK Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends....
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I ...
MATTHEW SETTLE An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative...
MATTHEW SCULLY I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know w...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completel...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
MATTHEW QUICK Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
MATTHEW SHIPP Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.
MATTHEW QUICK I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me i...
MATTHEW QUICK Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they&...
MATTHEW DESMOND Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '...
MATTHEW LILLARD I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
MATTHEW MORRISON Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
MATTHEW MACFADYEN I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly rememb...
MATTHEW RHYS I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and be...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,...
MATTHEW SETTLE Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.
MATTHEW MCGRORY A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ...
MATTHEW DESMOND In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&...
MATTHEW RHYS Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r...
MATTHEW LILLARD Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dra...
MATTHEW SCULLY As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted ...
MATTHEW MACFADYEN We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t...
MATTHEW STEWART I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan...
MATTHEW RHYS Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
MATTHEW ASHFORD The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ...
MATTHEW QUICK Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
MATTHEW PRIOR The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
MATTHEW PRIOR We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...
MATTHEW SIMPSON For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.
MATTHEW PRIOR Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW GREEN Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lay...
MATTHEW PRIOR You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I kno...
MATTHEW QUICK Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...
MATTHEW LEWIS We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.
MATTHEW BOULTON There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac...
MATTHEW DICKS Dare to Differ
MATTHEW GOLDFINGER Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And ...
MATTHEW SCULLY Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making...
MATTHEW FOX In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
MATTHEW PRIOR And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
MATTHEW PRIOR To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
MATTHEW PRIOR Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
MATTHEW PRIOR One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how...
MATTHEW FOX Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
MATTHEW PRIOR With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
MATTHEW PRIOR With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD 'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The ends must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
MATTHEW FOX Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home....
MATTHEW PERRY This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
MATTHEW GREEN Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Or to some coffee-house I stray,
For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp
MATTHEW GREEN The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just oursel...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather t...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder pas...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
MATTHEW PRIOR Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX At night astronomers agree.
MATTHEW PRIOR I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye wi...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.
MATTHEW PRIOR Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD To err is human.
MATTHEW PRIOR The end must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Brave...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-top...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden an...
MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath; Tonight it doth inherit Th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prev...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: "Eternity, be thou ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h...
MATTHEW DESMOND Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
MATTHEW HENRY Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the tri...
MATTHEW HENRY In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t...
MATTHEW STEWART Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...
MATTHEW PRIOR I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address ho...
MATTHEW DESMOND When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the...
MATTHEW LEWIS I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t...
MATTHEW SWEET To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation,...
MATTHEW SCULLY I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone h...
MATTHEW VAUGHN I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mell...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do i...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by hi...
MATTHEW HENRY There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photog...
MATTHEW MODINE I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m...
MATTHEW WEINER Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD My rule is to break one sweat a day.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
MATTHEW GREEN Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I ...
MATTHEW STEWART I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous...
MATTHEW STEWART You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends...
MATTHEW LEWIS None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
MATTHEW HENRY I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do ...
MATTHEW BARNEY I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technolo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd nev...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for somet...
MATTHEW DESMOND The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impressi...
MATTHEW DESMOND It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
MATTHEW DESMOND I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, t...
MATTHEW DESMOND When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.
MATTHEW DESMOND Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidi...
MATTHEW DESMOND Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to tak...
MATTHEW DESMOND There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the ...
MATTHEW DESMOND A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time se...
MATTHEW DESMOND You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for tha...
MATTHEW DESMOND Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain ...
MATTHEW DESMOND You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
MATTHEW DESMOND Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental we...
MATTHEW DESMOND You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this th...
MATTHEW DESMOND Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
MATTHEW DESMOND An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
MATTHEW DESMOND Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the aver...
MATTHEW DESMOND I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.
MATTHEW LEWIS The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good h...
MATTHEW MODINE I write little quotes all the time to help encourage people to come together, like this one: 'If...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
MATTHEW PERRY America's revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an internatio...
MATTHEW STEWART If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like...
MATTHEW DADDARIO I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.
MATTHEW MACFADYEN You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
MATTHEW QUICK Water's never clumsy.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I don't like to go out to parties or clubbing, and I kind of like my anonymity.
MATTHEW MORRISON I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.
MATTHEW SCULLY Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his ...
MATTHEW RHYS