Matter Quotes - Page 113

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.

Let me repeat: Observe a particle as a wave, and it is a wave. Observe it as matter, and it is matter. ... Thus it is our point of view, the way we look at reality that makes reality the way it is.

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.

Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.

It never ceases to amaze me that companies will spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars teaching people 'how to sell,' and not one minute or not $10 on 'why they buy.' And 'why they buy' is all that matters.

I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best of you no matter how you manage it.

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only to hear the call God makes to us to work with him. Quite often it is not a matter of doing something different, but doing it differently.

In the end....everything matters.

It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor.

Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.

I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution

Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands.