Metoyer Mathis Quotes

#1. White spume flew its ghost against the glass. #Quote by Cleopatra Mathis

#2. My casino experience is to someone else their experience with their employer, of how the company has elected to behave solely for greed, profits, and spite. But we shouldn't give up hope in such situations. We have an obligation to separate the justices from the injustices. We should hold these corporate neighbors accountable for the wrongs that they commit.
Someone has to. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#3. There is a particular kind of afternoon sun that exists only in autumn. A golden light drapes itself over the world of that hour. It falls through the afternoon sky, fine and faint as a swirl of cigarette smoke caught in the wind, nearly transparent. So sweet, that light, insisting softly, goldly against the windows. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#4. Don't forget:
Ruts aren't that much different ...
from graves. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#5. 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. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#6. At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity
like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#7. No one could tell her why things had turned out as they had, not August or the pastor or God himself. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#8. 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. #Quote by Johnny Mathis

#9. Good. He smiled. The truth is supposed to hurt! #Quote by R.A. Mathis

#10. Mother was a beautiful young woman; the house was too plain, too small to contain her. I watched her; for the first time I understood that she had an inner life that didn't have anything to do with me or my brothers and sisters. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#11. Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#12. Self-preservation - this is your new focus.
The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations.
Debt is hindsight. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#13. You make out with a boy because he's cute, but he has no substance, no words to offer you. His mouth tastes like stale beer and false promises. When he touches your chin, you offer your mouth up like a flower to to be plucked, all covered in red lipstick to attract his eye. When he reaches his hand down your shirt, he stops, hand on boob, and squeezes, like you're a fruit he's trying to juice. He doesn't touch anything but skin, does not feel what's within. In the morning, he texts you only to say, "I think I left the rest of my beer at your place, but it's cool, you can drink it. Last night was fun."
You kiss a girl because she's new. Because she's different and you're twenty two, trying something else out because it's all failed before. After spending six weekends together, you call her, only to be answered by a harsh beep informing you that her number has been disconnected. You learn that success doesn't come through experimenting with your sexuality, and you're left with a mouth full of ruin and more evidence that you are out of tune.
You fall for a boy who is so nice, you don't think he can do any harm. When he mentions marriage and murder in the same sentence, you say, "Okay, okay, okay." When you make a joke he does not laugh, but tilts his head and asks you how many drinks you've had in such a loving tone that you sober up immediately. He leaves bullet in your blood and disappears, saying, "Who wants a girl that's filled with holes?"
You find out that a #Quote by Lora Mathis

#14. This person sees not her own hand depositing the next dollar in a slot machine, but the hand of fate, or God. It's her true conviction that there are forces at work for her to win a large jackpot - or at least to win back the money lost.
After all, the only-for-show pictures of fruit had almost aligned with one another the last couple spins. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#15. Until a job is outsourced or streamlined through an innovation, an employee is trained to operate robotically. This is what a brand is. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#16. And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#17. Stupefied, but unharmed, he allowed Mathis to lead him off towards the Splendide from which guests and servants were pouring in chattering fright. As the distant clang of bells heralded the arrival of ambulances and fire-engines, they managed to push through the throng and up the short stairs and along the corridor to Bond's room. #Quote by Ian Fleming

#18. In whatever decisions you make in life, you have to run them through a series of logic tests to make sure that there aren't better alternatives.
Don't ever accept anything blindly - good or bad. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#19. All of them
Hattie and Willie and Evelyn and even ruined, crazy Walter
were little lights; sparks flying upward in dark places, trying to stay alight though they were compelled toward ash. They were nearly extinguished one moment, then orange and luminous the next. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#20. Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross #Quote by Johnny Mathis

#21. You looking forward to tonight?" he asked, changing the subject.

"I am," she said slowly. "It's been a while since I've had a good…date." She let the word slide off her tongue as though it were a euphemism for sex. The little devil on her shoulder wanted to bait him, to poke at the sexual tension that seemed to ebb and flow between them, but which neither would give in to.

His hand slammed on the counter. "You're not seriously thinking of sleeping with Mathis," he said incredulously.

"Well, why not? You said he's a good guy. And news flash - we modern city women don't adhere to any strict fifth-date rule."

"Fine! Fuck his brains out, for all I care," Jackson exploded.

"You're shouting," she said.

"I'm not - " He blew out a breath. "Damn it. #Quote by Lauren Layne

#22. Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends. #Quote by Johnny Mathis

#23. Life is about finding . . .
what works best for you. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#24. When our life in him is healthy and vibrant, we do not only ache to keep sinking our roots down deep in him, but we also want to stretch out our branches and extend his goodness to others. #Quote by David Mathis

#25. ocean's snaking blues beyond the meadow #Quote by Cleopatra Mathis

#26. [Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or Mexican syntax. So you keep it in because it's adding something unique. #Quote by Sandra Cisneros

#27. She had been with her share of schemers and men who were forever building castles in the sky. All of those dreams made out of clouds; when it rained - and it always did - they were left with nothing but the soggy shirts on their backs. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#28. I take in great lungfuls of air. Atom by atom, the oxygen enters my blood and pumps in waves through my veins; it is tidal, this pumping blood. My heart beats mightily. If I ran any faster, gravity would loose its claims on my ankles, and my feet would pedal into the air. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#29. do not be so quick to say "okay" it is alright to disagree with the action yet love the person. #Quote by P.M. MATHIS

#30. I try to look for the beauty in things. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#31. 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. #Quote by Johnny Mathis

#32. The waters of good preaching are always running downhill to the stream of Christ, who he is, and how he has loved us. #Quote by David Mathis

#33. Precisely in the most desperate moments, when having the masculine role feels most unfair, when we're our most tired, running on fumes, and need to keep providing in all these aspects, this is when the provision of God tastes the sweetest. #Quote by David Mathis

#34. I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity. #Quote by Johnny Mathis

#35. Trust can be one of life's greatest rewards, but it can also be the cause for the most destruction in one's life. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#36. Fear is different;
it remains;
it causes prejudice. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#37. But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity. #Quote by Johnny Mathis

#38. His pain was his most precious and secret possession, and Six held on to it as fiercely as a jewel robbed from a corpse. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#39. I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why I laid the cobblestone before me for this Dream to be achieved. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#40. The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else! #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#41. When they arrived at his apartment, Allen's roommate Tim, was lying on the faux black leather sofa in the living room watching an NBA play-off game on their fifty-two inch flat-screen. Owen was barely over five feet tall with a pale complexion, buck teeth, kinky hair, and he wore thick glasses that made his eyes look like they were popping out at you in 3-D; but he was sweet as pie and had a heart of gold. #Quote by Monica Mathis-Stowe

#42. Love me, love me, love me,
Say you do.
Let me fly away with you.
For my love is like the wind,
And wild is the wind.

- Wild is the Wind #Quote by Ned Washington

#43. Don't allow past experiences to be forgotten.
Hold them close. #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#44. Is it really necessary to reward the CEO with several million dollars? Why isn't it logical or common sense to pay the minimum-wage employee another quarter, give a quarterly fifty-dollar bonus, or even provide a two-hundred-dollar gas gift card? #Quote by John-Talmage Mathis

#45. God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#46. It takes a long time for a heart to heal. The next time passion comes along you won't be so eager to respond. Love and pain go hand in hand and it can change a person forever. #Quote by Kate Mathis

#47. It was important to do what needed doing, no matter the day or the circumstance. #Quote by Ayana Mathis

#48. There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing. #Quote by Samantha Mathis

#49. Fourth quarter field goals often wins games; first quarter field goals often lose them. #Quote by R.A. Mathis