Matchbook Collectors Quotes

#1. Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.

Dan Chaon

#2. What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.

Christian D. Larson

#3. Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the Internet seems valuable for exactly the opposite reason: You can get your news without a filter.

Michael Specter

#4. That's what love does/ It chases the dragons away/ before their claws can sink in.

Toby Barlow

#5. I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#6. What would writing be without a bit of melancholy?

Kevin Focke

#7. All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.

Camille Paglia

#8. Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

Karen Karbo

#9. If you believe that you have the right to force me - use your guns openly. I will not help you to disguise the nature of your action.

Ayn Rand

#10. Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

Euripides

#11. The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Cynthia McKinney

#12. People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

Helena Bonham Carter

#13. I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.

Nicolas Cage

#14. Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

Scott Berkun