More matter, with less art. – William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Queen Gertrude interrupts the long-winded Polonius to tell him to stop embroidering things and get to the point, when he begins speaking about Hamlet’s madness.
You’re doing a good job Don’t get too down The world needs you now Know that you matter, matter, matter, yeah. – Alicia Keys Her new song, Good Job, dedicated to the everyday heroes of the coronavirus pandemic.
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? – Henry Miller
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives. – Greg Boyle
If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no matter what its size. And if I think I can’t do something with a part, I won’t take it. – Geraldine Page
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent. – Halldor Laxness
I’ve always had real good taste; no matter how poor I’ve been, I’ve had good taste in clothes. – Georgia Holt
As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas. – Harvey Pekar
Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it’s going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it’s going to get larger and larger, and it’s going to keep coming up. – Herschel Walker
No, Borussia is not falling apart. It does not matter whichever players will leave. That is what the past has showed. The club has developed and actually improved despite big-name players leaving. – Granit Xhaka
Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration. – Hans Frank
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn’t, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. – Helen Frankenthaler
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom. – Gertrude Himmelfarb
No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move. – Henry Rollins
I feel privileged that I’ve been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on. – Hari Kondabolu
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. – Harrison Birtwistle
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. – George Boole
‘Need You Now’ is a universal subject matter. It’s something that not just country fans, not just pop fans – everybody’s been there. And the production was a little left of center. – Hillary Scott
I don’t see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn’t matter. – Genelia D’Souza
It really does not matter whether one believes a mystical entity created the universe 5,000 or 10,000 million years ago – both are equally irrational, unsubstantiated claims of no fundamental validity. – Harry Kroto
It doesn’t matter what odds are on paper or what’s happened before. It matters what happens that moment. – Holly Holm