Matter Quotes

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.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

I don't care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don't matter to me.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

No matter what you do, black lace tends to look a little Spanish.

Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

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.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.