Matter Quotes

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

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.

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.