Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay McInerney

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

Carly Fiorina

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

Candace Parker

You're measured by championships no matter what.

Candace Bushnell

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

James Hillman

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

James Dobson

I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience,

Kristin Hannah

When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.

Kristin Hannah

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Myles Munroe

If you have hope for the future you have true riches; no matter how much you have in your account

Molly Ivins

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Milton Friedman

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

Ken Wilber

There is nothing in the universe but matter.

Keira Knightley

You bring yourself to every role, it doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.

Katherine Mansfield

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

Kate Chopin

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

Keith Richards

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

Kevin Nealon

I don't smoke pot or cigarettes, so inhaling smoke as a non-smoker - it doesn't matter what it is, it's going to make you lightheaded.

Irvin Kershner

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

Ina May Gaskin

Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

Ida Lupino

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power. I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

Gloria Steinem

Behave like everything you do matters.

Harry S Truman

We all have to recognise, no matter how great our strength, that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

H. L. Mencken

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

George Herbert

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Ian Mcewan

When anything can happen, everything matters.

Ian Mcewan

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

Ian Mcewan

Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?

I don't think there's a lot of strategy in shootouts. They didn't know me, I didn't know them, so it's a matter of guessing.

Daniel Clowes

I don't think anything to do with who publishes the work matters at all, as long as they're not compromising to get published.

I can make plays. It's a matter of having the opportunity to prove that I can.