Matthew Centrowitz Quotes

#1. He didn't ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.

Sebastian Faulks

#2. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#3. But passion most dissembles, yet betrays, Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest. Don Juan, I. 73

Stendhal

#4. I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to the point at which they will be willing to sacrifice something.

Kumi Naidoo

#5. When I want to read a good book, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. Whenever I go to have a meeting at Universal, the security guard just leaps to his feet and comes over, bumps my hand, and says, 'Thank you! Thank you - I love your films!'

Wes Craven

#7. Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Chuck D

#8. Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

Julie Anne Peters

#9. To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#10. It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.

Lorrie Fair