Material Quotes · Page 3

I am careful with my material and presentation.

— Shelley Berman

Material things don't matter.

— John Catsimatidis

A lot of my material was based on my family.

— Cristela Alonzo

I do like two hours of new material every year.

— Ralphie May

I pull my material from daily life.

— Josh Blue

Attention is the material I work with.

— Tino Sehgal

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

— Cormac McCarthy

The material world may be nothing but illusion...

— Anodea Judith

Why else do we have Miami, if not to give me material?

— Dave Barry

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

— T. S. Eliot

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

— Philip Roth

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

— Mike McCue

I knew I had the right material and I knew what I was going after.

— George Thorogood

There are only so many material things you can have before it becomes boring.

— Erika Jayne

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

— Sam Underwood

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

— Henry Giroux

“External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine.”

— T.F. Hodge

The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully…

— Gwendoline Christie

One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material…

— Matthew James Thomas

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if…

— Frank Gehry

Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.

— Nancy Duarte

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff…

— Danger Mouse

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal; this somehow 'excuses' what might…

— Julie Burchill

When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at…

— John Banville

I'm proud of 'The Hidden.' I feel like we took a B-movie and kind of turned it into an A-minus action movie.…

— Kyle MacLachlan

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't…

— Rachel Cusk

You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to…

— Clive Davis

As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the…

— Robert Englund

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

— Dalai Lama

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

— Robert Darnton

My goal is to generate more material for myself.

— Casey Wilson

Let's face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.

— Ron White

What good is material wealth if you're poor in spirit?

— Ramandeep Singh

As long as there are headlines I'll have material.

— Randy Rainbow

Material interests are not the only guiding light.

— Kalpana Chawla

We had a certain kind of material that was not dangerously esoteric.

— Ronnie Corbett

If you don't put out material that's going to last, you're not going to last.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.

— Joshua Reynolds