Matter Quotes

I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.

It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me.

But if the matter was evenly disposed throughout an infinite space it could never convene into one mass; but some of it would convene into one mass and some into another, so as to make an infinite number of great masses, scattered at great distances from one another throughout all that infinite space.

It seems to me, that if the matter of our sun and planets and all the matter of the universe, were evenly scattered throughout all the heavens, and every particle had an innate gravity towards all the rest, and the whole of space throughout which this matter was scattered was but finite, the matter on [toward] the outside of this space would, by its gravity, tend towards all the matter on the inside, and, by consequence, fall down into the middle of the whole space, and there compose one great spherical mass.

Shadow partakes of the nature of universal matter. All such matters are more powerful in their beginning and grow weaker towards the end, I say at the beginning, whatever their form or condition may be and whether visible or invisible. And it is not from small beginnings that they grow to a great size in time; as it might be a great oak which has a feeble beginning from a small acorn. Yet I may say that the oak is most powerful at its beginning, that is where it springs from the earth, which is where it is largest.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Appearances matter - and remember to smile.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Let me have the best solution worked out. Don't argue the matter. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

If you truly believe that 'ALL LIVES MATTER' you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

I'm gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they're gonna like. It doesn't really matter.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.