Matt Quotes
With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.
My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.
I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.
I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.
I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.
I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.
In any show with a character that you really love, one inclination is to cure them of all their flaws but you remember that you like those flaws.
Flaw is just a negative word for what might be something that makes you unique or interesting.
When you have only 10 episodes to do and you know there's so many fun things that you have left unresolved, you have to figure out what happens to all of your supporting characters.
Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.
I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do.
I feel like I've been becoming more and more like the city I had been living in and creating in.
Sometimes it was during the breaks that the real meditation happened - moments when it was obvious that wisdom is not something you have, but a wave-length you tune in to.
Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.
New knowledge enhances an ever increasing sense of our own ignorance. The more we know, the more we know we don't know. Feynman called it 'the expanding frontier of ignorance'.
Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.
Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?
Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship.
There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.
If you always point others back to biblical truth and scripture, you allow God to become the reflection for others, not you.
We may pick and choose to graft different fruits onto our spiritual tree, but regardless of what we call it, others will see a confusing fruit salad.
So why should we focus mainly on the life and teachings of Jesus? One main simple truth: because He stands in the “center” for us.
Our human lives serve much like frames for our spiritual lives.
A hero is a matter of perspective. The only sure thing in war is casualties. Ideology, patriotism and religious zeal all fuel heroic notions.
Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!— Russ Cargill
What’s gotten into you?” he wondered, blinking in sudden frustration.“Not you, that’s for a certainty.
Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.
Not much to look at, but as with all true beauty it is what's inside that counts.
Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she’d drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.
If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money.
A bit of fantasy can be good for ones heart
Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.
I asked myself one day, 'Would it be humane of me to completely destroy my mind and soul for the music?' I knew immediately that the answer was no, so I knew I had to.
Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.
But not just alive like I was yesterday and the day before. Alive like I knew I was alive. Like I could feel the breaths coming into my chest. And I knew I was the person inside my own body.
Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.
That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression.
One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.
I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.
The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness.
