Richard Matthews Quotes

#1. I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.

Grace Meng

#2. The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder for non-Jews.

David Novak

#3. And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.

Andy Stern

#4. When we stop thinking primarily about ourselves, of our wants, our image and our own self-preservation, we undergo a transformation of truly heroic proportions.

Jose N. Harris

#5. Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.

Emily O'Beirne

#6. writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself.

William Zinsser

#7. It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar
maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless
and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

Jerry Saltz

#9. It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.

Billy Joel

#10. When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

Ashanti

#11. Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'

Andrew Hudgins

#12. The presence of some serious budgetary myopia is obvious here, as the vast majority of money is spent on studying diseases and virtually none is spent on understanding why healthy people are healthy in the first place.

Richard Matthews

#13. I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

John Berryman