Alisia Mathis Quotes

Bell lifted her hand to her chest. Her heart beat so quickly. She was floating out on a tide of agony, and soon she would be carried so far she'd never come back. ~ Ayana Mathis

Hattie had never been easy to love. She was too quiet, it was impossible to know what she was thinking. And she was angry all of the time and so disdainful when her high expectations weren't met. ~ Ayana Mathis

This is the heart of prayer - not getting things from God, but getting God. ~ David Mathis

When President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for Watergate, he actually pardoned Alexander Haig for the JFK assassination. ~ Tegan 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

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

The kind of perfection that Jesus says comes from his Father - and the kind he calls his disciples to pursue - does not find its sense of completion in delivering retribution for wrongs done. Rather, it is the perfection of a heart that finds so much fulfillment and satisfaction in the God of grace that it is able to extend grace to those who don't deserve it. ~ David Mathis

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. ~ John Waters

I try to look for the beauty in things. ~ Ayana Mathis

I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis. ~ Clay Aiken

It seemed to him that every time he made one choice in his life, he said no to another. All of those things he could not do or be were huddled inside of him; they might spring up at any moment, and he would be hobbled with regret. ~ Ayana Mathis

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. ~ Ian Fleming

The heat compounded, and ugliness settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking. ~ Cleopatra Mathis

One definition for rebound is, increasing strength after a previous decline. Another is to bounce back and make a recovery ~ Nikki Mathis Thompson

Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way. ~ Ayana 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

Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep ...
trump the need to preserve your credit score, or
purchase a new gizmo. ~ John-Talmage Mathis

Marriage is so much about working on our character, being the right person, and changing as we grow and mature together. ~ Susan G. Mathis

Since Rose, he'd never wanted to be the right guy for anyone. He hadn't wanted to carry that extra burden. He liked things nice and simple. But things sure as hell weren't simple with Lena. They'd never been simple with Lena. Things with Lena had been one hundred shades of unadulterated complication from day one. That fact alone should have sent him running in the opposite direction with all the speed of an Olympic gold medalist.

But no, here he stood. Holding on to her as if his life depended on it. Heaven help him, his life probably did depend on it. ~ Loren Mathis

She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. 'I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himself. It's about the bomb. It's a fantastic story. ~ 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

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

Pain is not an evolutionary error. ~ Mathis Wackernagel

Normally this is where she would have told him to put his dick in the doorway, so she could slam the door shut on her way out ~ Nikki Mathis Thompson

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

Since the beginning of time there have been people who see themselves as being above the law. To them the laws don't apply. These people often hold positions
in government and in the corporate world. Does a similar mentality exist within the casino world?
You betcha! ~ John-Talmage Mathis

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority. ~ Johnny Mathis

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage. ~ Samantha Mathis

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. ~ David Mathis

There were too many disappointments to name and too much heartbreak. They were beyond punishment or forgiveness, beyond what they had inflicted on each other, beyond love. ~ Ayana Mathis

My God, but you are hard to love," Hattie ~ Ayana Mathis

I will warm the great outdoors for the whole of January if I can. ~ Cleopatra Mathis

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past. ~ Johnny Mathis

You've had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness and curled into a fetal position. Regardless of how difficult this new ordeal may be, as with the others, this too will be overcome. It will make you stronger. ~ John-Talmage Mathis

Every player eventually loses all their money. ~ John-Talmage Mathis

A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind. ~ R.A. Mathis

Let's love, press your lips to mine. Let's kiss, for that thrill divine. ~ Johnny Mathis

Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you. ~ John Madden

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

Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance? ~ Alisia Compton

Move aside Ebola, smallpox, and AIDS; make room for narcolepsy. I would become shunned and avoided. Perhaps the
people at the casino thought that this fatigue disease was contagious.
Just because I yawn and you yawn shortly
after doesn't mean that you have suddenly been infected with narcolepsy. It would be silly if they had in fact thought this. ~ John-Talmage Mathis

The snow is tending toward nothingness. ~ Cleopatra Mathis

I live by the belief that if you work hard and do the best you can, at the end of the day sleep comes easily for the dollar that was earned honestly. It was a lesson instilled by my parents. It was a lesson that I have always followed and found to be quite accurate. ~ John-Talmage Mathis

When the noise is gone, and
the air is still ...
prepare for survival. ~ John-Talmage Mathis

I have looked at my father many times and wondered how he could stand knowing he was my mother's ruin. He was too weak to leave her. Mother should have thrown him out and saved them both, like Sissy was saving the two of us. ~ Ayana Mathis

It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music. ~ Johnny Mathis

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. ~ Monica Mathis-Stowe

Oh I never fake it... I make it a point never to reward bad behavior ~ Nikki Mathis Thompson