Matter Quotes

Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

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.

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.

No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.