Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What's important is that I do my job really well, that I build great products and that I'm a great leader. All… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There… — Joey Tempest Copy Share Image
Every human being who has ever lived has the same potential in them for good and evil. Mortal or sorcerer, it doesn't… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
But no matter what was going on in our lives, I could imagine lying beside her in bed at the end of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a competitor and a player in this league, you hate to see other players get injured, no matter who it is… — Matthew Slater Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting;… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image