Matt Goldman > Quotes

“Some believers burned incense as part of their ritual devoting themselves to God. The members of Christ Presbyterian burn fossil fuels.”
― Matt Goldman

“The gift of middle age is the life behind you. The years you’ve lived and what they’ve taught you.”
― Matt Goldman, Carolina Moonset

“But he passed over the highway then pulled into Bunny’s, a sports bar popular with the over-thirty crowd from Edina and St. Louis Park. I drove around the block, giving Fine plenty of time to find a parking place and go in. Ten minutes later, I walked into Bunny’s and sat at the bar. Weekday lunchtime was a mix of blue and white collars.”
― Matt Goldman, Gone to Dust

“I don't have a college degree but I've made up for it by studying a rare field called Useful Shit.”
― Matt Goldman

“Take care of yourself first, Nils. It’s the only healthy way to get through life.”
― Matt Goldman, Gone to Dust

“That's the thing with Jameson. Some bottles are smooth. Some bottles burn like hell. You don't know which until it's open. I'd caught a bad one and told myself it'd get better with each sip.”
― Matt Goldman, Gone to Dust

“We headed upstairs, looking down on the living room that featured a grand piano. Of course it did. This was the kind of neighborhood where every parent makes their kid take piano lessons, but no parent wants their kid to be a musician.”
― Matt Goldman

“potential blinds and insulates you from the elements”
― Matt Goldman, Gone to Dust

“Any place with year-round Christmas lights is a place I want to be. I usually see them in dive bars, strung along cheap sheet paneling where they cast their twinkly glow on the tap handle of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, where Pabst is drank for what it is instead of ironically, like in some other bars.”
― Matt Goldman, Gone to Dust

“Potential is a foul fucking temptation.”
― Matt Goldman, Gone to Dust

“She wasn't exactly pretty but was attractive in the way most twenty-five-year-olds are - she still had hope. And hope is drop-dead gorgeous.”
― Matt Goldman