Matches Quotes
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And there he plays extravagant matches In fitless
finger-stalls On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical
billiard balls.
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I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music... I think they're very intertwined.
lady gaga— Lady Gaga Interview with ARTISTdirect
At the outset the solemn asseverations of monarchs and leading statesmen in each nation that they did not want war must be placed on a par with the declarations of men who pour paraffin about a house knowing they are continually striking matches and yet assert they do not want a conflagration. This form of self-deception, which involved the deception of others, is fundamentally dishonest.
arthur ponsonby— Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World War, Introduction (1928)
It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
— 1960 In the Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct.
With that stick of matches, with our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
— 1986 Speech in the black townships, reported in The Guardian, 15 Apr. The'necklaces' were home-made bombs, car tyres filled with petrol.
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.
robert burton— Section 2, member 2, subsection 5.
(You wouldn't believe the number of people who hang the electric chair painting in the homes, especially if the colour of the canvas matches the curtains.)
Andy Warhol— As quoted in Marie Deparis (2009), "Mounir Fatmi: Gardons Espoir / Keeping Faith" (bilingual exhibition notice, as a retranslation from the French "On n'imagine pas le nombre de personnes qui accrocheraient chez elles le tableau de la chaise électrique, surtout si les coloris de la toile s'harmonisent avec les rideaux.")
When I read economic documents,I have to have a box of matches and start moving them into position, to illustrate and simplify the points to myself.
— 1965 The Making of the Prime Minister.
I hear John Arlott's voice every weekend, describing cricket matches. He sounds like Uncle Tom Cobleigh reading Neville Cardus to the Indians.
dylan thomas— Letter to Margaret Taylor, 11 July 1947
He was certainly one of that company who tried to raise descriptions of matches from mere reporting to literature.
dudley carew— Obituary in The Times, quoted in Obituary, Wisden
It's just unreal, I'm shocked myself. I've played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.
roger federer— After defeating Andy Roddick in the Australian Open 2007 semi-final.[3]
I felt like what I saw was the old classic Rafa on clay hardly losing sets and matches. That's what we got from him. That's why it's going to be incredibly hard to beat him here at Wimbledon.
rafael nadal— Roger Federer[7]
Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.
michael parenti— 1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Hidden Holocaust,USA, p. 2
God, at least in the West, is often represented as a man with a flowing beard and sandals... if the Net does have a god, he is probably Jon Postel, a man who matches that description to a T. Mr. Postel's claim to cyber-divinity, besides his appearance, is that he is the chairman and, in effect, the sole member of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the organization that coordinates almost all Internet addresses.
jon postel— The Economist (1997-02-08)
In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.
J.G. Priestly— The English (1973)
"I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion," [Clovis] resumed presently. "They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster."
saki— "The Match-Maker"
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.
Andy Warhol— As quoted in Moderna Museet (1968), Andy Warhol: Stockholm, Moderna Museet, February–March 1968 (exhib. cat.), Malmö: Sydsvenska Dagbladets, [ISBN]; repr. 1970, Boston: Boston Book and Art, [ISBN]
— As quoted in Mike Wrenn (1991), Andy Warhol: In His Own Words, London & New York: Omnibus Press [Music Sales Group], ISBN 0-7119-2400-7 [ISBN 978-0-7119-2400-0]
— As quoted in Isabel Kühl (2007), Andy Warhol: Living Art, Munich & New York: Prestel, ISBN 978-3-7913-3814-9 [ISBN 3-7913-3814-5]
(You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)
Andy Warhol— As quoted in Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan (2004), Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop, New York: Delacorte, ISBN 0-385-90079-1 [ISBN 978-0-385-90079-9]
(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.)
Andy Warhol— As quoted in Sylvie Fleury et al. (2001), Sylvie Fleury: Identity, Pain, Astral Projection (exhib. cat., Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2001–2002), Paris: RMN (Réunion des musées nationaux) & Dijon: Presses du réel, ISBN 2-7118-4313-0 [ISBN 978-2-7118-4313-8]
In those days kitchen matches were heavy-duty implements more like signal flares than the weedy sticks we get today. You could strike them on any hard surface and fling them at least fifteen feet and they wouldn’t go out. Indeed, even when being beaten vigorously with two hands, as when lodged on the front of one’s sweater, they seemed positively determined not to fail.
Bill Bryson— p. 170 (The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2006))
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
Simone de Beauvoir— Conclusion, p. 543
The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
stephen jay gould— "Shades of Lamarck", p. 76
Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.
ariel sharon— Quoted in Friedman, Robert I., Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel's West Bank Settlement Movement (New York, New York: Random House, 1992), 132-52.
[Milton Erickson] does not translate unconscious communication into conscious form. Whatever the patient says in metaphoric form, Erickson responds [matches] in kind. By parables, by interpersonal action, and by directives, he works within the metaphor to bring about change. He seems to feel that the depth and swiftness of that change can be prevented if the person suffers a translation of the communication.
— Haley, Uncommon therapy, 1973 + 1986, p. 28
There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
— 1911The Chronicles of Clovis,'The Match-Maker'.
Our coming-to-be is as mysterious as our ceasing-to-be at death. Can we therefore not derive hope because our ignorance about our origin matches our ignorance about our destiny? Cannot life be lived as a challenging and wonderful adventure that has meaning yet to be discovered? (95)
john carew eccles— Ch. 5. (Facing Reality (1970))
When I was young I used to watch Italian football matches and my wish was to one day become like Totti.
francesco totti— Javier Pastore, 2010 [30]
(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang a picture of an electric chair in their room – especially if the color of the picture matches the curtains.)
Andy Warhol— As quoted in Geoff Nicholson (2002), Andy Warhol: A Beginner's Guide, London: Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 0-340-84620-8 [ISBN 978-0-340-84620-9]
[Milton Erickson] does not translate unconscious communication into conscious form. Whatever the patient says in metaphoric form, Erickson responds [matches] in kind. By parables, by interpersonal action, and by directives, he works within the metaphor to bring about change. He seems to feel that the depth and swiftness of that change can be prevented if the person suffers a translation of the communication.
— Haley, Uncommon therapy, 1973 + 1986, p. 28
