Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas Copy Share Image
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end. — Sam Worthington Copy Share Image
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they? — Mark Addy Copy Share Image
Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive,… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can… — Hector Elizondo Copy Share Image
When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
