Matt Stout quote: "When I came to the course, there were three temporary greens, 11, 13 and 18. In the interview, they asked if 18 would be playable by the end of the season. I said, absolutely."

Whether or not you write well, write bravely
BILL STOUT

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about rega...
REX STOUT

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their bre...
RUTH STOUT

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.
REX STOUT

Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
RUTH STOUT

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the c...
REX STOUT

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
RUTH STOUT

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball ga...
REX STOUT

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's d...
REX STOUT

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of t...
REX STOUT

There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up
REX STOUT

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of de...
REX STOUT

As a counterpoint to sociopathy, the condition of narcissism is particularly interesting and instruc...
MARTHA STOUT

The pace is unbelievable. These guys can drill 30 feet and blast it off every day.
BEN STOUT

They kept it from flowing down stream. I wish the rest of the industry behaved that way.
BEN STOUT

It was impressive how these guys were genuine in their efforts. Actions speak louder than words.
BEN STOUT

It was a tough situation. We either wanted Benny or Crawford to come off a screen, but they defended...
GRANT STOUT

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
REX STOUT

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them mus...
REX STOUT

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
REX STOUT

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!
MARKO STOUT

I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A ton...
REX STOUT

...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the oppor...
REX STOUT

There was this big puff, this big ball of smoke, with the two trailing boosters. But because we didn...
BRUCE STOUT

And at the same time, what we really had to try and do was set aside our own grief to take care of t...
BRUCE STOUT

We were so torn, because as adults, as teachers, we had grown up with the space program and knew tha...
BRUCE STOUT

Win, lose or draw, this is (a case in which) fast justice is better than slow justice.
DON STOUT

Slow justice is justice denied. If we were going to lose, let me lose fast. If we're going to win, l...
DON STOUT

To tell the world they have a workaround without sharing what it is, to me suggests they're not comf...
DON STOUT

They litigated and lost, and now they don't get a free pass.
DON STOUT

We're not rolling over on this and playing dead. This is going to be reversed.
DON STOUT

My official position is that we have not settled. At this stage, what's going on in District Court i...
DON STOUT

We think our case is extremely sound and we're proceeding with it, and we'll just keep going until t...
DON STOUT

As far as distribution goes, we definitely sell more wines here that are off the beaten path than we...
GUY STOUT

Cabbage palms don't blow over if it's not a major hurricane. We have to be able to meet somewhere in...
NATHAN STOUT

You're involved in diversity. It's in the fact that you are living and breathing on this campus.
BRIAN STOUT

The program is designed to confront oppressions and barriers people have regarding other people. It ...
BRIAN STOUT

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
REX STOUT

That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprise...
REX STOUT

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
REX STOUT

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swampe...
REX STOUT

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
REX STOUT

If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and...
MARTHA STOUT

People are really embracing screw-top closures. [Bars are] showing it off...They're using it as a se...
GUY STOUT

Pinots are really rocking out there.
GUY STOUT

If you travel and you have a corkscrew taken from you at the airport like I have so many times, it's...
GUY STOUT

We think we're deserving right now. But we know that every win puts us higher.
GRANT STOUT

The first 10 to 12 minutes of the game will decide how we play. If we get rolling, establish an insi...
GRANT STOUT

It was an in-between decision whether you go block it or not. Because if he misses it and I miss it,...
GRANT STOUT

I was in between, whether to go out and block it or not. If I went out there and he missed it, they ...
GRANT STOUT

We get our reps in, then the guys who come off the bench more scrimmage a little bit more than we do...
GRANT STOUT

During that game, you can learn a lot about one player.
GRANT STOUT

In order for us to reach our goal of winning this conference, you've got to get wins on the road. Th...
GRANT STOUT

The big talk around practice was that a few reporters called him the best post player in the Missour...
GRANT STOUT

His goal is to raise as much money as he can, to use the basketball program for further research and...
GRANT STOUT

He smacked his lips, tasting the fifth brand, and holding up the glass looked through the amber at t...
REX STOUT

We always felt we have male readers who say they don't read our romance novels but they do.
MARLEAH STOUT

It's been going on since January and will continue going on.
MARK STOUT

If we let one industry off the hook, others will want the same. If we don't all pitch in, we're not ...
MARK STOUT

We are recruiting in Detroit and getting resumes from Detroit, as we are in St. Louis and Atlanta. B...
MARK STOUT

-If I somehow possessed a set of videotapes that contained all the most significant events of your c...
MARTHA STOUT

That team was the epitome of what the Sweet 16 is all about. They had such an impact on all of Easte...
LOUIS STOUT

He took the loss, understood the times, and went on about his business.
LOUIS STOUT

The proposal was the result of good faith negotiations between the company and the union bargaining ...
JOE STOUT

We're also getting deeper into women's clothing and accessories. Ladies' jewelry and purses have bee...
JOE STOUT

My wife (Maggie Lee) and I are both retired, and a sister came to live with us, so it just made sens...
JOE STOUT

We've gotten about five or six (new members) since we put the sign up. Had about 20 before.
JOE STOUT

Of the four of us kids, three of us worked here. This was Dad's place. This is part of us.
JOE STOUT

A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your dau...
MARTHA STOUT

If they don't take that, we'll seek to enforce the injunction.
DONALD E. STOUT

A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society
JUANITA KIDD STOUT

Unlike the hollow, risk-pursuing few who are deprived of a seventh sense [conscience], you will go t...
MARTHA STOUT PH.D.

We are pleased to have reached an amicable settlement with RIM. We believe that the settlement is in...
DONALD E. STOUT

We are pleased to have reached an amicable settlement with [Research In Motion].
DONALD E. STOUT

This is a clear win for mobile e-mail users everywhere as it provides them with a viable alternative...
DONALD E. STOUT

We're willing to settle the case, but not on terms that RIM is going to dictate.
DONALD E. STOUT

We were a little upset over this, because it seemed that we were one of the front-runners from the b...
NORM STOUT JR

We tried to stress in our application that this is a small community with a lot of elderly citizens ...
NORM STOUT JR

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
MATT CAMERON

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting...
MATT KEMP

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.
MATT KEMP

When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes...
MATT KEMP

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.
MATT KEMP

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with jus...
MATT KEMP

I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking...
MATT KEMP

I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community....
MATT KEMP

I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, ...
MATT KEMP

Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.
MATT KEMP

If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the pur...
MATT KEMP

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.
MATT KEMP

Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the m...
MATT HARVEY

I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?
MATT LAUER

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
MATT DAMON

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, inc...
MATT CAMERON

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switc...
MATT CAMERON

I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path f...
MATT CAMERON

Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.
MATT CAMERON

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard tim...
MATT CAMERON

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship j...
MATT CAMERON

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to ...
MATT CAMERON

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgard...
MATT CAMERON

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.
MATT CAMERON

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what'...
MATT CAMERON

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
MATT CAMERON

I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.
MATT CAMERON

I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like t...
MATT CAMERON

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't...
MATT CAMERON

I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
MATT CAMERON

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked be...
MATT CAMERON

If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.
MATT CAMERON

Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming a...
MATT CAMERON

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was f...
MATT CAMERON

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.
MATT CAMERON

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
MATT CAMERON

I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hy...
MATT CAMERON

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic...
MATT DILLON

I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,...
MATT GROENING

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
MATT BLUNT

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failur...
MATT BLUNT

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increa...
MATT BLUNT

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be le...
MATT BLUNT

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
MATT BLUNT

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent elec...
MATT BLUNT

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an...
MATT BLUNT

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good...
MATT BLUNT

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and lib...
MATT BLUNT

Public education is an investment in our future.
MATT BLUNT

With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our or...
MATT GROENING

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
MATT GROENING

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature ma...
MATT GROENING

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two hal...
MATT GROENING

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.
MATT GROENING

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.
MATT GROENING

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're ...
MATT GROENING

I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it...
MATT GROENING

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I...
MATT GROENING

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody fel...
MATT GROENING

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encou...
MATT GROENING

The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on ...
MATT GROENING

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd eve...
MATT GROENING

The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the R...
MATT GROENING

My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitio...
MATT GROENING

If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, ...
MATT GROENING

Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
MATT GROENING

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
MATT GROENING

If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
MATT BOMER

I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
MATT LAUER

A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it w...
MATT APUZZO

I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are gr...
MATT DILLON

Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
MATT MULLENWEG

Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly wi...
MATT BOMER

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere...
MATT DAMON

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
MATT DAMON

Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing peopl...
MATT DAMON

I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets...
MATT GONZALEZ

I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a ...
MATT KUCHAR

It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
MATT HAIG

I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i...
MATT HAIG

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business in...
MATT TAIBBI

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nost...
MATT RIDLEY

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as w...
MATT BOMER

The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. It's a fantastic model that eliminates risk fo...
MATT MICKIEWICZ

If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your ...
MATT BEVIN

'The Kids Are All Right' is amazing. The performances are insanely good. Julianne Moore is g...
MATT BOMER

Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.
MATT MARTY

I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'...
MATT KUCHAR

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed dow...
MATT HAIG

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think t...
MATT DAMON

Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in t...
MATT BELLAMY

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.
MATT LANTER

'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms -...
MATT GROENING

I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a ...
MATT GROENING

This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood ...
MATT BEVIN

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; th...
MATT HAIG

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a t...
MATT RIDLEY

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d...
MATT TAIBBI

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
MATT GROENING

There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress...
MATT MULLENWEG

When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn&...
MATT MULLENWEG

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
MATT GROENING

A group of adventurers is known as a "party," and not just because they like to celebrate their succ...
MATT FORBECK

If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
MATT DAMON

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking...
MATT DILLON

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that'...
MATT DAMON

It-was a tiny mollusc that caused Walter, grandfather of the greatest biologist of the twentieth cen...
MATT RIDLEY

As a small boy Francis Crick had been haunted by a fear that by the time he grew up everything would...
MATT RIDLEY

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
MATT GROENING

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
MATT BIONDI

When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learn...
MATT GROENING

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun
MATT GROENING

I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, ...
MATT BALDWIN

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
MATT STONE

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's ni...
MATT DAMON

If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity...
MATT SMITH

I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direc...
MATT BERNINGER

It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to f...
MATT MULLENWEG

'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was th...
MATT BERNINGER

I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I m...
MATT HOLLIDAY

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love ...
MATT GROENING

I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for ...
MATT PROKOP

When I came to the course, there were three temporary greens, 11, 13 and 18. In the interview, they asked if 18 would be playable by the end of the season. I said, absolutely.

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When I came to the course, there were three temporary greens, 11, 13 and 18. In the interview, they asked if 18 would be playable by the end of the season. I said, absolutely.

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