At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.
Tracy Chapman

But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.
Paul Begala

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.
Martina Navratilova

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
Gene Tierney

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
Sarah Vowell

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
Maggie Smith

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
Tom Hayden

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
Marlee Matlin

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.
George Weinberg

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes

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

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
Jesse Helms

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
Maya Lin

The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.
Tab Hunter

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
Stephen King

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
Anita Hill

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
Mickey Mantle