Matter Quotes

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

For us, the pressure comes from internal matter of having recorded eight records.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio 's coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes, we balanced our budget, we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world, including America , was being downgraded.

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.