#matt

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#bodies #change #constancy #diminished #diversity

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer? ↗

— Andres Segovia

#electric #heard #matter #singer #violin

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#begins #call #chief #chief justice #confirm

It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation. ↗

— Monica Seles

#control #give #give me #how #i

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#character #enough #get #head #hired

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#afraid #always #i #lot #ludicrous

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#excellence #length #life #like #matters

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#how #life #long #matters #tale

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#quality #quantity #rather #than

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#burns #earth #eternity #fire #gives