I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Because life is short. I feel we’re made of a hunger, a desire for life – if that can be described as… — Sarah Slean Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a… — Jean Stapleton Copy Share Image
Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind.… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of… — Jay Hernandez Copy Share Image
Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size,… — Asa Baber Copy Share Image
By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way. — Stacey Snider Copy Share Image
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
