European toilet paper is made from the same material that Americans use for roofing, which is why Europeans tend to remain standing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my… — Jim Hodges Copy Share Image
Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just… — Herbert Copy Share Image
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
So a lot of people are like, "What are you thinking? Why are you buying size 10?" Well, I'm 5 feet 9… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine;… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined… — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use. — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination. — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves. — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about… — Masaoka Shiki Copy Share Image
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do… — Gertrude Stein 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
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image