A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
Some television programs are made very attractive to young children by presenting short, rapidly moving sequences and ever-changing episodes.... Some experts now… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement. — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Like-dislike, good-bad, profit-loss; who gave rise to all these dualities? The society did. As far as God is concerned, there is no… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A millionaire is a person who is free, who does what she loves, who has unlimited materials, her choice of tools, abundance,… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment.… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image