Matter Quotes
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.
I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.
As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.
No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.
Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.
Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.
I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.
Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.
No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.
What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.
No matter what the situation may be, there is always something positive you can do about it.
There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.
The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.
I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.
Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.
Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.
That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.
I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
You know, its just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.
I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.
It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.
We can't kill our way to victory, and no armed force anywhere - no matter how good - can deliver these keys alone. It requires teamwork and cooperation.
I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
Country and western is the music of the devil. Thats the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldnt handle it.
I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
