Matter famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
-- A. E. Hotchner -
The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.
-- A. Edward Newton -
Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.
-- A.J. Cronin -
It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.
-- Aaliyah -
Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
-- Aaron Carter -
Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
-- Aaron Tveit -
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives
-- AB de Villiers -
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
No matter where I am, I will always be there when you need me.
-- Abbi Glines -
Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.
-- Abraham Verghese -
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
-- Abu Bakr -
If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.
-- Adam Brown -
No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.
-- Adam Lambert -
If you really like someone, it doesn't matter what their mouth feels or tastes like. The kiss is still awesome.
-- Adam Selzer -
You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
-- Adolphus Busch -
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
-- Adoniram Judson -
The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.
-- Adora Svitak -
It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.
-- Adrian Rogers -
The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ***** you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
-- African Spir -
But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
-- Agnes Smedley -
When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.
-- Agyness Deyn -
Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.
-- Agyness Deyn -
The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
-- Aidan Chambers -
It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.
-- Aimee Mann -
No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
-- Akio Morita -
I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.
-- Akshay Kumar -
The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.
-- Alain Enthoven -
No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.
-- Alan Arkin -
A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,
-- Alan Autry -
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
-- Alan Cohen -
The people who matter will recognize who you are.
-- Alan Cohen -
If you have good wealth mentality.... you will generate wealth wherever you go. Even if you lose money temporarily, your wealth mentality will attract it again. If you have a lack mentality, no matter how much you receive or what financial opportunities come your way, wealth will evade you or, if it comes, it won't last.
-- Alan Cohen -
The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
-- Alan Cranston -
There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
-- Alan Parker -
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
-- Alan Watts -
What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means,
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
-- Albert Camus -
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.
-- Albert Einstein -
There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.
-- Albert Einstein -
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
-- Albert Einstein -
To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.
-- Albert Gubay -
Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
-- Albert Hadley -
It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.
-- Aldo Gucci -
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
-- Aldous Huxley -
It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
-- Aldous Huxley -
"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."
-- Aldous Huxley -
It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.
-- Aldus Manutius -
The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
All that matters is that I stay healthy.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price
-- Alex Flinn -
Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.
-- Alex Garland -
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
-- Alex Kapranos -
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
-- Alex Kapranos -
I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.
-- Alexander Downer -
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
-- Alexander Pope -
In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.
-- Alexander the Great -
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?
-- Alexander the Great -
A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.
-- Alexander Wang -
No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.
-- Alexandra Lara -
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you…
-- Alexandre Dumas -
No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There‟s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.
-- Alfred Bester -
In love matters; keep your pen from paper.
-- Alfred de Musset -
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is...unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.
-- Alice Neel -
America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
-- Alice Walker -
Traveling by motor is just one situation after another. ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall.
-- Alice-Leone Moats -
What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.
-- Alicia Silverstone
