Materials Quotes · Page 139

Josh [Gad] is such an amazing improviser and is so good when the material is flowing from him that sometimes, if a…

— Josh Gad

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it…

— Joseph Sobran

Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those…

— Laurie R. King

They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are…

— Ted Koppel

Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Over the years, she [my mother] always encouraged me in the arts. She actually worked at an art museum when we were…

— Jeff Vespa

At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to…

— Tommy Douglas

Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

— Heather Dorff

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and…

— Denis Norden

If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

— John F. Carlson

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the…

— Jimmy Connors

The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must…

— Eugene Odum

And as He has given, "In all thy getting, my Son, get understanding." This is putting proper emphasis in the proper places,…

— Edgar Cayce

I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.

— Mindy Kaling

I am constantly looking to push boundaries with materials, bring in new weights, and work in fabrics unexpectedly.

— Roksanda Ilincic

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

— Henry A. Kissinger

What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes…

— Raymond J. de Souza

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of…

— Joseph P. Farrell

The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.

— Graham Hill

Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political…

— Margaret M. Lock

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

— Natasha Richardson

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

— Ted Alexandro

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction…

— Herbert Hoover