Destiny is a matter of chance and choice.

Experts tell us that it is not a matter of if a pandemic will hit, it’s a matter of when. It does tend to go in cycles. If a pandemic reaches Idaho soil, state health...

Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

What we call ‘time’ isn’t chronological but spatial; what we call ‘death’ is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

It’s not a matter of if, but when we might see another pandemic.

Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it’s not enough.

It doesn’t matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn’t have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even...

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she’s seen tougher.

If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there’s too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels...

What you find in the theatre is that if you’re good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that – whoever you are.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain...

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am...

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Amongst it all my soul craved one thing, Love, for it was the beginning and end of anything that will ever truly matter.

It’s impossible to be involved in all situations, but there’s no excuse not to be involved in something, somewhere, somehow, with someone. Make an ounce of difference.

I’m going to go to school. It doesn’t matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

I’m still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

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...

I’ve decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class – a leader with the courage to do...

I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic hypothesis sought in vain for hundreds and thousands of years. The...

They all matter to me, whether I’m working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I’m the star of my own TV series – I take it all very seriously, and I have...

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

The stars are matter, we’re matter, but it doesn’t matter.

You can’t tell the audience — well, you can, but I don’t like to tell the audience — that anything they’re watching doesn’t matter.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn’t matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt;...

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do ‘Enemy of the People’ with Steve McQueen. It doesn’t matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or...

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence…

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn’t matter what genre it is.

The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn’t matter.

Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential – and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter...

I guess another message I’d like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail… I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I’d get to...

Customer is king. I am his treasurer.

Overcoming procrastination is not, I repeat, not about cramming additional work into your day . . . overcoming procrastination is about simplifying your life to make space for the activities that matter most.

It doesn’t matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.

I’ve reached a point in my life where it’s the little things that matter… I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think...

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It’s isn’t the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don’t think.

When the FDA forces an old drug off the market, patients have very little say in the matter. Patients have even less of a say when the FDA chooses not to approve a new drug....

Including matter itself, antimatter

I grew up loving women and without misogyny, rancour or prejudice, totally loved and loving. And no matter what has happened since, I don’t think I have treated women in my life very badly.

Whether you’ve done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it’s just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise...

It doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’re about to die.

A good horror movie – it doesn’t matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn’t matter how much you think it’s going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the...

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How...