#matter

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#daily #digest #fit #know #little

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#biological #chief #city #convert #creativity

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#more #other #people #really #than

Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered. ↗

— Franco Nero

#mattered #my life #only #part #probably

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#i think #matter #music #painting #subject

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#little #made #making #matter #obsessed

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#around #attention #children #day #just

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#belief #challenge #else #finding #going

I've seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn't matter how we met. We met. I don't want to say that we're a couple. I can definitely say that he's somebody in my life, and I'm definitely interested but I'm not serious with anybody. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#couple #definitely #how #i #i can

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#basis #both #matter #mode #truth