Matchwell Quotes

#1. The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his speech, but they could hear his chafing thighs all the way to the North Pole.

David Sedaris

#2. Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

Zig Ziglar

#3. The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

Tullian Tchividjian

#4. An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper - probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.

Isabella Bird

#5. People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

Jo Brand

#6. he worked with great intensity without sparing himself, & he was respected for this, but no one liked him" --crime & punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

Bernard Rudofsky

#8. It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.

Shirley Horn