Matthew Quotes

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me is that all the songs are about me, and it's cool that people care.

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

God's favour is happiness.

I prefer music that invents a universe.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they're crying they need to do one of the three and they're having trouble doing it. Real simple.

Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

I'm such a dude. I'm just like, 'All right, I have to get up in my monkey suit.' I'd rather be in jeans.

Saying and doing are two things.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

Be so positive and optimistic that people give up trying to contain you.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.