Roberto Matta Quotes

#1. Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

Srikumar Rao

#2. In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes

Karl Rahner

#3. During his first year at the Eclectic that, by his second year, the school had promoted him from janitor to assistant professor.

Candice Millard

#4. Peaches. Talk to me.

Jaci Burton

#5. I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced.

Jacki Weaver

#6. If there were two things Silas McFuller knew about the world, it was that life is not always fair, but everything happens for a reason.

Megan Duke

#7. That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration.

Jonathan Dee

#8. I saw every single movie when I was a kid.

Paul Scheer

#9. Similarity is the shadow of difference. Two things are similar by virtue of their difference from another; or different by virtue of one's similarity to a third. So it is with individuals.

Matt Ridley

#10. Tears are not to be wasted on what we cannot help, Lily. If you must be brave, then be as brave as you can.

Tom Murphy

#11. Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

Kate Forsyth

#12. I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

Elizabeth Scott

#13. The cursor changed to the spinning wheel of sadness.

Madeleine Roux

#14. I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

Roberto Matta