Harry Mathews Quotes

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.

Harry Mathews

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 14, 1930

Topics

StepOpportunitiesInterestingCreate

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

NatureMountainsJoyPeopleMind

I feel like design school might ruin people, particularly if you're a menswear designer, as there's not much focus on business.

Michael Bastian

BusinessFocusSchoolPeopleDesign

There's always women of many different races on my shows, and there are always women who look many different ways, but there is still a size thing in this industry. It's hard. I mean to have to say, 'I want a larger woman to be an actor on my shows.' Or, 'Find me a larger woman,' is almost insulting to me.

Shonda Rhimes

WomenWomanMeLookFindWant

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Rush Limbaugh

ChangePeopleMindToughYouKnow

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

Martin Rees

FutureWeatherLimitsComputersDays

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

Miguel

WorldThinkArtistAudienceWhatever

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.

Mira Nair

CharacterWarStoryNameAmerican

Be not scared to use your voice.

Logic

VoiceScaredYourUse

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

Jon Crosby

GoodWaterPainSongFishYou

Reach for the stars.

Christa McAuliffe

InspirationalStarsReach

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

Bonnie Hunt

HopeStruggleAlwaysUpNeighborhood

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.

Pharrell Williams

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