Matter Quotes
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Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.
Dana Gioia
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When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever. ~Allen Walker
Katsura Hoshino
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Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we've rocked it, is a choice we make every day.
Rachel Hollis
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When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.
Thomas Sowell
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Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.
Judith Tarr
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I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.
Ryan Gosling
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James
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It doesn't matter what kind of result will be in the end. I already win for myself.
Evgeni Plushenko
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Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.
David Lilienthal
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We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.
William Friedkin
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Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
Harry Houdini
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Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will not turn, though they will probably bleed profusely and will definitely be annoyed.
Molly Harper
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No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Because there are 7 billion 47 million people on the planet And I have the audacity to think I matter I know it's a lie but I prefer it to the alternative
George Watsky
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I'm an artist, and expressing myself in a sexual way, no matter how that changes throughout the years, is something that has always come naturally to me. At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.
Christina Aguilera
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For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.
Adam Croasdell
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I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
Thomas Kinkade
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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
Seth Godin
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I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.
Mohsin Hamid
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Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
Michael Crichton
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I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.
Cary Fukunaga
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'We're all self-serving.' Camilla shrugged. 'It's just a matter of what we do to others in service of ourselves.
Courtney Milan
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I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.
William H. Macy