Matter Quotes

• By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?

  

  William Morris
  • Way
  • Matter
  • Judging

• It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends - the stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Matter
  • Mountain
  • Odds

• What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Matter

• It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Night
  • Rest
  • Sun

• The question you must answer isn't how to get ahead. It's how to go somewhere that matters. And have fun along the way.

  

  Umair Haque
  • Fun
  • Question
  • Answers

• It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feels

• The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a great and beautiful novel which mainly involved shallow people going to parties in a rich guy's house. By contrast, all sorts of terrible books are published every month about men slaughtering people for no reason - a serious matter which, in itself, does not make the author worthy of serious consideration.

  

  Declan Lynch
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Consideration

• There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Contemplation
  • Spectacles
  • Human Agony

• I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually happen would be that I should make out Pt (normal) and say to myself that would be about 50:1; pretty good but as it may not be normal we'd best not be too certain, or 100:1; even allowing that it may not be normal it seems good enough and whether one would be content with that or would require further work would depend on the importance of the conclusion and the difficulty of obtaining suitable experience.

  

  William Sealy Gosset
  • Science
  • Enough
  • Credit

• Skyler, you are the love of my life, I hope you know that. Walter junior, you're my big man. There are... there are going to be some things, things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. I just want you to know that, no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.

  

  Walter White
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Insightful

• I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Fall
  • Matter
  • Awesome

• I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Facts
  • Winter
  • Might

• Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Success

• It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Study

• Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

  

  Cass Daley
  • Marriage
  • Give
  • Take

• What's the matter Jaimy? Ain't-cha never seen a girl before? -Jacky Faber

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • Girl
  • Matter

• Its central idea, it was noted, is the production of life through the tieing or union of spirit and matter.

  

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn
  • Life
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

  

  Homer Hickam
  • Want
  • Reason
  • Complexes

• A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn't matter who you are, and that's truly what I believe.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Song

• Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

  

  Ken Starr
  • Different
  • Whether
  • Obviously

• No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Done
  • Change
  • Price

• They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

  

  Dana Reinhardt
  • Words
  • Really
  • Anything

• I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.

  

  Allister Coetzee
  • Matter
  • Leader
  • Runner

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