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I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.
— Ayana Mathis
Superstition is that which we know in our minds to be rubbish. Faith is that which we hope in our hearts to be true.
— R.A. Mathis
Hattie's children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee.
— Ayana Mathis
Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.
— Johnny Mathis
You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
— Samantha Mathis
Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
— Samantha Mathis
I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.
— Clay Aiken
Don't forget:
Ruts aren't that much different ...
from graves. — John-Talmage Mathis
Ruts aren't that much different ...
from graves. — John-Talmage Mathis
There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
— Samantha Mathis
You act like your whole life was one long January afternoon." Lawrence said. "It wouldn't do any good to go around with my head in the clouds.
— Ayana Mathis
Over half the population of Iraq is fifteen or younger.
— R.A. Mathis
When the noise is gone, and
the air is still ...
prepare for survival. — John-Talmage Mathis
the air is still ...
prepare for survival. — John-Talmage Mathis
And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.
— Johnny Mathis
I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.
— Johnny Mathis
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.
— Ayana Mathis
I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.
— Ayana Mathis
I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
— Johnny Mathis
It seems to me that everything is on its way to becoming something else, giving itself up in the service of another. In
— Ayana Mathis
Don't drop your books. You might lose your lesson.
— Greg Mathis
Some things you can't apologize for, you just have to try to get around them," Hattie replied. "For your own sake too, so you can have a little peace.
— Ayana Mathis
She wished the man outside really were Thomas, so she and Billups could again have the same enemy and the same fear.O
— Ayana Mathis
How soon Mathis had been proved right and how soon his own little sophistries had been exploded in his face!
— Ian Fleming
My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.
— Johnny Mathis
I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
— Ayana Mathis
My God, but you are hard to love," Hattie
— Ayana Mathis
Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.
— Johnny Mathis
Hattie was like a lake of smooth, silvered ice, under which nothing could be seen or known.
— Ayana Mathis
Fine doesn't call before dawn.
— Ayana Mathis
The difference between the right spouse and the wrong spouse is the difference between a soul mate and a cell mate.
— R.A. Mathis
Preparation:
allows you to prevent ...
the intensity of the ordeal. — John-Talmage Mathis
allows you to prevent ...
the intensity of the ordeal. — John-Talmage Mathis
Fear is different;
it remains;
it causes prejudice. — John-Talmage Mathis
it remains;
it causes prejudice. — John-Talmage Mathis
I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.
— Johnny Mathis
Don't allow past experiences to be forgotten.
Hold them close. — John-Talmage Mathis
Hold them close. — John-Talmage Mathis
Life is about finding . . .
what works best for you. — John-Talmage Mathis
what works best for you. — John-Talmage Mathis
Tools that make life simpler ... tend to make life more hectic, and more prone to disruptions.
— John-Talmage Mathis
I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.
— Ayana Mathis
We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.
— Mathis Wackernagel
And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.
— John-Talmage Mathis
His pain was his most precious and secret possession, and Six held on to it as fiercely as a jewel robbed from a corpse.
— Ayana Mathis
The Lord brings us into this world naked, but I don't suppose he means us to stay that way
— Ayana Mathis
But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.
— Johnny Mathis
In Georgia, there was a eucalyptus tree in the wood across from Hattie's house, but the plant had been hard to come by in the Philadelphia winter.
— Ayana Mathis
Marrying Mathis made sense. It would solve all their problems. Except her problem of wanting Jorgen. But it hurt too much to think about that.
— Melanie Dickerson
You ought to go now before she wakes up, Hattie said. She handed her daughter to Pearl. I'm in the floor, she thought.
— Ayana Mathis
We're in danger of losing a huge piece of our cultural inheritance to thugs and looters, if we haven't lost it already.
— R.A. Mathis
One thing I am learning is to slow down. Multitasking is great, but I when try to do everything at warp speed I just end up with typos and stress.
— Ayana Mathis
Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to ...
conquer the difficulties of the present. — John-Talmage Mathis
provide proof of your abilities to ...
conquer the difficulties of the present. — John-Talmage Mathis
There is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino.
— John-Talmage Mathis
Good. He smiled. The truth is supposed to hurt!
— R.A. Mathis
Maybe we have only a finite amount of love to give. We're born with our portion, and if we love and are not loved enough in return, it's depleted.
— Ayana Mathis
Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow.
— Ayana Mathis
When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
— Samantha Mathis
Fourth quarter field goals often wins games; first quarter field goals often lose them.
— R.A. Mathis
Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful. I don't reckon you got no place like that.
— Ayana Mathis
There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.
— Samantha Mathis
Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources
— Mathis Wackernagel
It had been easy to be comfortable with each other when there was a glass wall between them.
— Ayana Mathis
Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep ...
trump the need to preserve your credit score, or
purchase a new gizmo. — John-Talmage Mathis
trump the need to preserve your credit score, or
purchase a new gizmo. — John-Talmage Mathis
do not be so quick to say "okay" it is alright to disagree with the action yet love the person.
— P.M. MATHIS
This is what you have . . . that many don't: TIME
— John-Talmage Mathis
Pride brought down a lot of folks. One of these days you gon' have to turn around and look at whatever it is you running from.
— Ayana Mathis
God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind.
— Ayana Mathis
Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in.
— John-Talmage Mathis
It felt wrong for me to push Lady Luck to the side and for me to choose who ought to be 'lucky'. It didn't seem right. It wasn't fair.
— John-Talmage Mathis
No one believes in Hell--until they get there.
— R.A. Mathis
Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice.
— John-Talmage Mathis
No one could tell her why things had turned out as they had, not August or the pastor or God himself.
— Ayana Mathis
At last, her mother and sisters exited the station and came to stand next to her. "Mama," Hattie said. "I'll never go back. Never.
— Ayana Mathis
You've looked in the mirror long enough.
See everything as if it were narrated by another. — John-Talmage Mathis
See everything as if it were narrated by another. — John-Talmage Mathis
Oh I never fake it... I make it a point never to reward bad behavior
— Nikki Mathis Thompson
In the Kurdish part of town, he saw many children with blonde hair and blue or green eyes. There were even some with hair red as fire.
— R.A. Mathis
It seemed to him that he could never get a proper grip on any of the beauty in this world.
— Ayana Mathis
The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.
— Ayana Mathis
When President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for Watergate, he actually pardoned Alexander Haig for the JFK assassination.
— Tegan Mathis
Don't allow another human to decide your priorities. Their decisions are made without the slightest concern for how you're inconvenienced.
— John-Talmage Mathis
I try to look for the beauty in things.
— Ayana Mathis
Six understood in that instant that he had something the ministers wanted and it had given him power among them. He had never been powerful among men.
— Ayana Mathis
I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.
— Johnny Mathis
Somebody always wants something from me," she said in a near whisper. "They're eating me alive.
— Ayana Mathis
Trust can be one of life's greatest rewards, but it can also be the cause for the most destruction in one's life.
— John-Talmage Mathis
Until a job is outsourced or streamlined through an innovation, an employee is trained to operate robotically. This is what a brand is.
— John-Talmage Mathis
The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'
— Mathis Wackernagel
Every player eventually loses all their money.
— John-Talmage Mathis
I was full of myth, which is to say full of an idea.
— Cleopatra Mathis