Matter Quotes

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

~ Kate Reardon

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

~ Jack Benny

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

~ Renzo Piano

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

~ Flannery O'connor

There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.

~ Octavia Spencer

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

~ Charles Dance

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

~ H. Jackson Brown

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

~ Marlene Dietrich

There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.

~ Angela Merkel

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.

~ Ben Stein

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

~ Bryan Adams

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

~ Jessica Savitch

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

~ Miley Cyrus

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

~ Joyce Brothers

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

~ Ralph Ellison

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

~ Lou Holtz

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

~ Aaron Ciechanover

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

~ Maria Schell

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

~ Paulo Coelho

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

~ Mary J. Blige

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

~ Rose Kennedy

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

~ Horace

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

~ Martin Scorsese

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

~ Jacques Lacan

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

~ William Feather

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

~ Umberto Eco

Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

~ Conrad Black

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

~ Henri Bergson

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

~ Cameron Díaz

You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids of cellular life.

~ David Shields

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

~ Henry Miller

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

~ Tony Robbins