Top 100 Quotes About Mathis
#1. She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. 'I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himself. It's about the bomb. It's a fantastic story.
Ian Fleming
#2. [Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or Mexican syntax. So you keep it in because it's adding something unique.
Sandra Cisneros
#3. My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.
Gloria Estefan
#4. I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.
Clay Aiken
#5. Mathis turned off the radio and waved an affectionate farewell. The door slammed and silence settled on the room. Bond sat for a while by the window and enjoyed being alive.
Ian Fleming
#6. We're going to start with the injury report, obviously. Manning, Clark, Addai, Reggie Wayne, Freeney, Mathis, Brackett - all those guys will not play. Oh, hold up. That was my wish list for Santa Claus.
Rex Ryan
#7. How soon Mathis had been proved right and how soon his own little sophistries had been exploded in his face!
Ian Fleming
#8. Do not ever give up trying - because eventually you will win." Judge Greg Mathis
Greg Mathis
#9. I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.
John Waters
#10. The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam."
Sandra Cisneros
#11. Jorgen!" Mathis strode up to Jorgen's side. "I hope you are not going to dance with this lovely swan all night." "I had hoped I would." Jorgen winked at her. Odette smiled at him.
Melanie Dickerson
#12. My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.
Sandra Cisneros
#13. Marrying Mathis made sense. It would solve all their problems. Except her problem of wanting Jorgen. But it hurt too much to think about that.
Melanie Dickerson
#14. He looked up at Mathis to see how bored he was getting with these introspective refinements of what, to Mathis, was a simple question of duty. Mathis smiled back at him.
Ian Fleming
#15. Bond grinned with pleasure. What most warmed him was that M. himself should have rung up Mathis. This was quite unheard of. The very existence of M., let alone his identity, was never admitted. He could imagine the flutter this must have caused in the ultra-security-minded organization in London.
Ian Fleming
#17. Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources
Mathis Wackernagel
#18. Fourth quarter field goals often wins games; first quarter field goals often lose them.
R.A. Mathis
#19. It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
Johnny Mathis
#20. Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to ...
conquer the difficulties of the present.
John-Talmage Mathis
#21. When the noise is gone, and
the air is still ...
prepare for survival.
John-Talmage Mathis
#22. It seemed to him that he could never get a proper grip on any of the beauty in this world.
Ayana Mathis
#23. It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
Johnny Mathis
#24. It seemed to him that every time he made one choice in his life, he said no to another. All of those things he could not do or be were huddled inside of him; they might spring up at any moment, and he would be hobbled with regret.
Ayana Mathis
#25. Hattie's children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee.
Ayana Mathis
#26. I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.
Johnny Mathis
#27. It felt wrong for me to push Lady Luck to the side and for me to choose who ought to be 'lucky'. It didn't seem right. It wasn't fair.
John-Talmage Mathis
#28. I know all of her moods and the way they play across her features, but I am still awed at the configuration of lips and eyes and cheeks that make up that face that I love. Out of all of the others I could have loved. My Sissy.
Ayana Mathis
#29. I think that people have some sort of vision that everybody is moving towards perfection, and that there is some sort of set steps or something like that that you can move through to get to that place, and that that's sort of the project of being alive.
Ayana Mathis
#30. And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.
John-Talmage Mathis
#31. Until a job is outsourced or streamlined through an innovation, an employee is trained to operate robotically. This is what a brand is.
John-Talmage Mathis
#32. Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.
Ayana Mathis
#33. Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.
Johnny Mathis
#34. In the Kurdish part of town, he saw many children with blonde hair and blue or green eyes. There were even some with hair red as fire.
R.A. Mathis
#35. My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.
Johnny Mathis
#36. Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful. I don't reckon you got no place like that.
Ayana Mathis
#37. I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.
Johnny Mathis
#38. All decisions we've come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.
John-Talmage Mathis
#39. Tools that make life simpler ... tend to make life more hectic, and more prone to disruptions.
John-Talmage Mathis
#40. It had been easy to be comfortable with each other when there was a glass wall between them.
Ayana Mathis
#41. There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.
Samantha Mathis
#42. When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.
Johnny Mathis
#43. When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
Johnny Mathis
#44. But she was gone, and Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching forward names, not looking back ones. The
Ayana Mathis
#45. Six wasn't sure religion was any more than a lot of people caught up in a collective delirium that disappeared the minute they stepped out of the church doors and onto the street.
Ayana Mathis
#46. You've looked in the mirror long enough.
See everything as if it were narrated by another.
John-Talmage Mathis
#47. Somebody always wants something from me," she said in a near whisper. "They're eating me alive.
Ayana Mathis
#48. You ought to go now before she wakes up, Hattie said. She handed her daughter to Pearl. I'm in the floor, she thought.
Ayana Mathis
#49. It was important to do what needed doing, no matter the day or the circumstance.
Ayana Mathis
#50. Precisely in the most desperate moments, when having the masculine role feels most unfair, when we're our most tired, running on fumes, and need to keep providing in all these aspects, this is when the provision of God tastes the sweetest.
David Mathis
#51. She had been with her share of schemers and men who were forever building castles in the sky. All of those dreams made out of clouds; when it rained - and it always did - they were left with nothing but the soggy shirts on their backs.
Ayana Mathis
#53. Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice.
John-Talmage Mathis
#54. Good. He smiled. The truth is supposed to hurt!
R.A. Mathis
#55. Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.
Johnny Mathis
#56. All of them
Hattie and Willie and Evelyn and even ruined, crazy Walter
were little lights; sparks flying upward in dark places, trying to stay alight though they were compelled toward ash. They were nearly extinguished one moment, then orange and luminous the next.
Ayana Mathis
#57. I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why I laid the cobblestone before me for this Dream to be achieved.
John-Talmage Mathis
#58. Maybe we have only a finite amount of love to give. We're born with our portion, and if we love and are not loved enough in return, it's depleted.
Ayana Mathis
#59. You act like your whole life was one long January afternoon." Lawrence said. "It wouldn't do any good to go around with my head in the clouds.
Ayana Mathis
#60. At last, her mother and sisters exited the station and came to stand next to her. "Mama," Hattie said. "I'll never go back. Never.
Ayana Mathis
#61. Since the beginning of time there have been people who see themselves as being above the law. To them the laws don't apply. These people often hold positions
in government and in the corporate world. Does a similar mentality exist within the casino world?
You betcha!
John-Talmage Mathis
#62. I couldn't stand to be a fool a second time,' Hattie said. 'I couldn't stand it.
Ayana Mathis
#63. The butterflies were still alive in the Mason jar. August turned to her and said, "We gon' make it through, Hattie." She snatched the jar from the table and hurled it at the wall behind August. The two of them watched the butterflies, stunned and struggling in the broken glass.O
Ayana Mathis
#64. Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep ...
trump the need to preserve your credit score, or
purchase a new gizmo.
John-Talmage Mathis
#66. She had her nose so high in the air she could smell the birds farting.
Ayana Mathis
#67. I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.
Ayana Mathis
#68. The ordeals of others ...
prepare us, and
later become the compass ...
in our time of ordeal.
John-Talmage Mathis
#69. It takes a long time for a heart to heal. The next time passion comes along you won't be so eager to respond. Love and pain go hand in hand and it can change a person forever.
Kate Mathis
#70. No one believes in Hell--until they get there.
R.A. Mathis
#71. I have looked at my father many times and wondered how he could stand knowing he was my mother's ruin. He was too weak to leave her. Mother should have thrown him out and saved them both, like Sissy was saving the two of us.
Ayana Mathis
#72. Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in.
John-Talmage Mathis
#73. When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.
Johnny Mathis
#75. Over half the population of Iraq is fifteen or younger.
R.A. Mathis
#76. Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.
Johnny Mathis
#77. Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching-forward names, not looking-back ones.
Ayana Mathis
#78. Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.
Johnny Mathis
#79. I probably always will be. But I've been mad all my life, and I finally figured out that I couldn't keep carrying that with me. It's too heavy and I'm too tired. Time will take care of it, like it does everything else.
Ayana Mathis
#80. It seems to me that everything is on its way to becoming something else, giving itself up in the service of another. In
Ayana Mathis
#81. I make a point of seeing the sunset. Even if I am on duty, I go on deck to watch the sky darken into twilight. It helps me remember that this strange place is still the earth, and I am still on it.
Ayana Mathis
#83. But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.
Johnny Mathis
#85. One thing I am learning is to slow down. Multitasking is great, but I when try to do everything at warp speed I just end up with typos and stress.
Ayana Mathis
#86. God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind.
Ayana Mathis
#87. Superstition is that which we know in our minds to be rubbish. Faith is that which we hope in our hearts to be true.
R.A. Mathis
#88. When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
Samantha Mathis
#89. She wished the man outside really were Thomas, so she and Billups could again have the same enemy and the same fear.O
Ayana Mathis
#90. Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow.
Ayana Mathis
#91. I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.
Ayana Mathis
#94. We're in danger of losing a huge piece of our cultural inheritance to thugs and looters, if we haven't lost it already.
R.A. Mathis
#95. The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.
Ayana Mathis
#96. The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!
Ayana Mathis
#97. No one could tell her why things had turned out as they had, not August or the pastor or God himself.
Ayana Mathis
#98. I think being consistent is really important. In the arts there's a misconception that you sit around waiting for the muse to come, and that it's all really mystical and mysterious. In reality, sometimes you have to fake it till you make it.
Ayana Mathis
#99. Life isn't fair. It doesn't make sense. This unfairness is felt by everyone, from the Las Vegas tunnel dweller all the way to the executive in the high-rise. To some, these "unfair" experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life.
John-Talmage Mathis
#100. I take in great lungfuls of air. Atom by atom, the oxygen enters my blood and pumps in waves through my veins; it is tidal, this pumping blood. My heart beats mightily. If I ran any faster, gravity would loose its claims on my ankles, and my feet would pedal into the air.
Ayana Mathis
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