Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I’m not picky. I never think, ‘Oh, this neck isn’t made of ebony,’ or, ‘These strings don’t feel correct.’ It doesn’t matter too much. – James Hetfield
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. – Isadora Duncan
I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is. – John Malkovich
Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don’t apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must. – Julian Baggini
I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness. – Jairam Ramesh
Productivity is a relative matter. And it’s really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer’s strongest books. – Joyce Carol Oates
I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I’m forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build. – James Wolcott
With some actors, you can tell when they’re acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen. – John Travolta
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain’t – take two! – Jack Nicholson
Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote ‘The Heart of the Matter,’ which was a huge hit for Don. – J. D. Souther
Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‘if’ we will fall, but ‘when.’ There are no exceptions. – John C. Maxwell
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. – Josh McDowell
The difference is that with Ebola, it is such a devastating disease, and there is still no cure. They’re still working on vaccines. The fact of the matter with polio, there is a cure; there is a vaccine. – Itzhak Perlman
When the ‘Guardian’ is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career… it doesn’t get much nastier than that. And you’ve just got to go, ‘It doesn’t actually matter.’ – James Corden
Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn’t have a real method, there’s a great deal of anxiety over what it is. – Clifford Geertz
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. – Bijou Phillips