Matchbook Quotes

#1. When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.

Sam Shepard

#2. I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

Elie Wiesel

#3. She went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old matchbook. You can scratch the head against the strip in the same way you always have but you are not going to get any kind of spark.

Tayari Jones

#4. I have a great memory.

Carol Burnett

#5. There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

Mike Tyson

#6. God's one and only voice is silence.

Herman Melville

#7. If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

Meg Tilly

#8. Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity

Seth Klarman

#9. It was very important business. Negotiations for a cease-fire between warring parties."
David rolled his eyes. "You could just say makeup sex.

Dianne Sylvan

#10. People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

Andy Warhol

#11. I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.

Erica Brown

#12. I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it's a lot more personal and creative for me, I don't feel restricted.

Guy Pearce