J. B. Matthews Quotes

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

Republicans woke up Sunday with an undeniable reality. Donald Trump's the clear front-runner now for their party's nomination. Trump, celebrated, of course, his big win in South Carolina.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...

The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.

Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

People don't like getting dirty or living in an environment that's been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.

In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.

I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away.

The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.

Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars!

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.

I see you young and soft oh little baby Little feet, little hands, little baby One year of crying and the words creep up inside Creep into your mind So much to say

The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

Are you looking for answers, to questions under the stars? If along the way you are growing weary, You can rest with me until a brighter day It's okay

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on.

The problem is someone will try to convince you That they know the answer no matter the question Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world 'Cause it's just ..... crazy - you know that it is

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.

Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free?

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

She thinks, "Hey, How did I come to this? I dream myself a thousand times around the world, But I can't get out of this place"

I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.