“What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Discussing http://zompist.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/woody-in-barcelona/ the movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona
“What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Barbara Bush (1925–2018) former First Lady of the United States
Variant: Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
“But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"A Pinch of Salt".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
Context: Poet, never chase the dream.
Laugh yourself and turn away.
Mask your hunger, let it seem
Small matter if he come or stay;
But when he nestles in your hand at last,
Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast.
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Biharul Anwar, Volume 96, Page 248
Shi'ite Hadith
“Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.”
John Steinbeck book Sweet Thursday
Source: Sweet Thursday