Matchbox Quotes

#1. I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

Tommy Shaw

#2. If you have to put a matchbox under your chair, you need to straighten out your floor.

John McConnell

#3. When I was in seventh grade, I totally had a crush on a guy who was older than me, and he listened to alternative music. So he was into Days of the New and stuff like that, and more poppy stuff, too, like Matchbox Twenty.

Carrie Underwood

#4. From the sky, everything looked fake. The buildings were doll houses. The cars were Matchbox racers. People scuttled about, but they weren't really people anymore. Their little lives meant absolutely nothing from this altitude.

P.S. Baber

#5. Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Quietly, he walked towards it with the matchbox in one hand, the candle in the other.

Markus Zusak

#7. Win," Leo said, "you'll burn the house down, just after it's been rebuilt. Give me the bloody matchbox."
She shook her head resolutely.
Are we starting a new springtime ritual?" Leo demanded. "The annual burning-of-the-manse?" Come to your senses, Win.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. The fort.
Where the pair stored their painted scenes and books of made-up languages, their two-man band, and the tiny matchbox bed plus accessories that they made in case, someday, their experiments in the world of shrinking finally panned out.

Michelle Cuevas

#9. If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. I'm going after your ex-husband," I heard him say softly. "And when I finish, there won't be enough left of him to fill a fucking matchbox.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. If they gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.

Anonymous

#12. My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

Anonymous

#13. Longbottom causes devastation with the simplest spells. We'll be sending what's left of Finch-Fletchley up to the hospital wing in a matchbox.

J.K. Rowling

#14. It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.

Mal Peet

#15. Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

J.M. Coetzee

#16. If your goals aren't synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won't matter much.

Danielle LaPorte

#17. An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?

George R R Martin

#18. I could be anything but for the faults that I've acquired on my way.

Matchbox 20

#19. I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me.

Matchbox 20

#20. We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care.

Matchbox 20

#21. If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

T.K. Naliaka

#22. Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

Matt Taibbi

#23. Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.

Robert Herrick

#24. Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Alexandre Dumas

#25. What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

Robert Kennedy

#26. This exquisite, tremendous, and endlessly confounding life

Elin Hilderbrand

#27. We were friends for a year before we started playing music together. We both think it's pretty important. Tyler's my friend before he's a guy in my band, and when we talk to each other about things, it comes from a friend standpoint, not just a business standpoint.

Josh Dun

#28. Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?

Ned Vizzini

#29. I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

Will McDonough

#30. There is no protection against slander.

Moliere

#31. I'm probably the most loquacious author when it comes to my dedications. The reason is there is some symbolism there. I've been writing these books, bringing these stories to my readers who I love so much, and I have a greater love for my family.

Karen Kingsbury

#32. Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

Matthew Vaughn