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

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
Mario Andretti

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.
Britney Spears

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.
Dee Hock

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
Dee Hock

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Thomas Carlyle

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
Ann Landers

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
Jim Valvano

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.
Marilyn Manson

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. Wilson

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Ralph Ellison

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
Joe DiMaggio

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Vladimir Nabokov

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Gerald R. Ford

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Jules Renard