Mattuh Quotes

#1. Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

L. Ron Hubbard

#2. Hobbits do not like heights, and do not sleep upstairs, even when they have any stairs.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Maturity ... is letting things happen.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#4. Know what you want - and get it

Sushmita Sen

#5. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of

Emma Cline

#6. The Moon"

There is such loneliness in that gold.
The moon of the nights is not the moon
Who the first Adam saw. The long centuries
Of human vigil have filled her
With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror.

Jorge Luis Borges

#7. The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

Vincent Massey

#8. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it" (Rev. 2:17).

Hilton Sutton

#9. I believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup.

Douglas Coupland

#10. What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.

Robin S. Sharma

#11. I'm not alone. My friends are inside me . . our hearts are connected!

Shiro Amano

#12. The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

Jacques Hadamard

#13. At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

Jack Kornfield

#14. There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#15. I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.

Aunjanue Ellis