#matter

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#book #dead #dry #dust #ended

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#certainly #else #good #likes #matter

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#actor #agency #because #big #bring

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#gets #history #house #left #matters

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. ↗

— John Grierson

#corporate #cultivation #fact #in fact #lines

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#bag #baseball #book #clearest #color

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#because #case #court #day #favorable

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#basis #been #built #business #entrepreneurs

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#ballet #could #dancer #enough #even

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#box #different #dime #dozen #matters