Matter Quotes

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.