I was successful with mediocre material because of a good…

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

— Tom Skerritt

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

— Peter Matthiessen

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily…

— Pedro Almodovar

Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you…

— Esther Hicks

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to…

— Susan Glaspell

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,…

— Jami Attenberg

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

— Anonymous

The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often…

— Larry Charles

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and…

— Harsha Bhogle

Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process…

— Lily Montagu

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

— Tadao Ando

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps…

— Alexander MacLaren

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of…

— Antoine Predock