Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium… — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable")… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I… — Edward Victor Appleton Copy Share Image
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this… — Sophie Scholl 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 kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
What we can do as landscape architects is look at how we can use materials to the best advantage, and our resources… — Pamela Palmer Copy Share Image
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues. — Ric Edelman Copy Share Image
