Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We didn't want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games]… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what… — Dan Phillips Copy Share Image
A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary,… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that… — Anil Agarwal Copy Share Image
In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?'… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
MCs get a little bit of love and think they hot, Talkin bout how much money they got...all y'all records sound the… — Stic.man Copy Share Image
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
