Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily want to direct because it's too much work and I don't have the attention span to stay with it… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when… — William James Copy Share Image
The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our… — R. Carlos Nakai Copy Share Image
The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter,… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are… — Kukai Copy Share Image
It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good. — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to… — William Whipple Copy Share Image
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together. — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image