Matter Quotes - Page 93

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time.

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don't know yourself you don't know anything.

The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

For now I'm happy the way I am – short and plump. I would not go in for Botox or anything like that. I'm content with the way I look. What's wrong with looking like Susan Boyle? What's the matter with that?

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

You and I won't lose each other, I will always find you again. No matter how well you hide. I'm unstoppable.

No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants

As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.

It does not matter much what happens.

Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be "squishy" and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something.