Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.

Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.

Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.

Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Consciousness comes first; it is the ground of all being. Everything else, including matter, is a possibility of consciousness. And consciousness chooses out of these possibilities all the events we experience.

Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.

"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

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.

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

Corr stood here," Sean says wonderingly. "I would've died. He didn't have to stay." For a moment, I see that it doesn't matter that he didn't win. The fact of Corr's loyalty is a bigger thing than the ownership of him.

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

Courage is not a matter of gender.

Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory farm or a small family farm. Besides, every dairy cow, no matter what she has been fed, has her babies stolen from her shortly after birth and she will inevitably end up in the slaughterhouse.

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.