Brander Matthews Quotes

#1. I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

Rachael Yamagata

#2. Parents should support and love their kids no matter what.

Tracy Morgan

#3. It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Stanley Fish

#4. Evil is just the uncontrolled flow of power.

Pragat Kasana

#5. There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

Brander Matthews

#6. So, are you into casual sex or should I dress up?

Suzanne Wright

#7. In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

Brander Matthews

#8. A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Brander Matthews

#9. Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

Brander Matthews

#10. A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

Brander Matthews

#11. When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

Brander Matthews

#12. Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.

Brander Matthews

#13. The gospels were all about God becoming king, but the creeds are focused on Jesus being God.

N. T. Wright

#14. Contemporary philosopher Max More describes the goal of humanity as a transcendence to be achieved through science and technology steered by human values.

Ray Kurzweil

#15. To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

Brander Matthews

#16. Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ...

Sue Townsend

#17. I start every dance with a box. I write the project name on the box, and as the piece progresses I fill it up with every item that went into the making of the dance.

Twyla Tharp

#18. When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

Laura Ricketts

#19. The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.

Brander Matthews

#20. I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

David Levithan

#21. Months slip through the house surreptitiously, like uninvited spirits.

Beck Anderson

#22. (In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

Bill Gates

#23. Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Boris Pasternak

#24. I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Steve Jobs