Matter Quotes - Page 110

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

The best theory comes from string theory, which states that dark matter is nothing but a higher vibration of the string. We are, in some sense, the lowest octave of a vibrating string.

It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy.

No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

At the end of a matter ask, "What will I learn from this to make me better?"

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

Becoming a millionaire is not the end goal; your growth and development en-route is what matters.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me a kid who innately doesn't like The Beatles, and I'll show you a bad seed.

Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

It doesn't matter whether we live in the 19th or 21st centuries; we face the same basic problems that everyone who lives between the Fall and the return of Christ faces.

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

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so frequently observed in volcanic eruptions and emanations, and to which M. Ch. Sainte-Claire Deville has called attention in recent years? Finally, must one assign a parralel origin to carbonaceous matter and to hydrocarbons contained in certain meteorites, and which appear to have an origin foreign to our planet? These are questions on which the opinion of many distinguished geologists does not as yet appear to be fixed.

No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children

If people don't like you, it doesn't matter how much uniqueness, nerve or talent you have!

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.

People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door.