Materials Quotes · Page 41

I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right…

— Steve Tisch

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

— Kiki Smith

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological…

— Shirley Jackson

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like…

— Robin Day

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic…

— Francis Crick

I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get…

— Wynton Marsalis

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

— Flavius Josephus

I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of…

— Robert Sternberg

It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice,"…

— Vaclav Havel

That is the number-one threat we face in the world. And it becomes particularly threatening if terrorists ever get their hands on…

— Hillary Clinton

This generation is different. They are not as interested in chasing money or material possessions. I believe that this generation is more…

— Andrew Aydin

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to…

— John Templeton

Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed…

— James Elkins

A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind…

— Henry Peach Robinson

A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort…

— G. H. Hardy

Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does…

— Theodore Kaczynski

Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate…

— Edward S. Jordan

I still use the pronoun she for my publicity materials, and for mainstream media stuff, for two reasons: the first is that…

— Rae Spoon

The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to…

— Benedict Groeschel

Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,…

— Eckhart Tolle

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force…

— Karl Marx

I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which…

— Rene Descartes

I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I…

— James A. Michener

The reason I did the name change is simple. I wrote a bunch of autobiographical material and I was really enjoying myself…

— John Wesley Harding

Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality

— Dallin H. Oaks

You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can.…

— Felipe Esparza

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact…

— Ernest Lawrence

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make…

— Graham King

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

— John Henrik Clarke

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

— Nikola Tesla

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for…

— Karl Rove

Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.

— Maria Bamford

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as…

— William Carlos Williams

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great…

— Matt Lauria

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

— Goldwin Smith

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

— John Engler