Materials Quotes · Page 59

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn…

— Rene Redzepi

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression…

— C. V. Wedgwood

We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote…

— David Banner

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

— Peter Singer

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.

— Judah Friedlander

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus…

— Henry David Thoreau

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I have never done jewelry before so, of course, I had an idea in mind, but I needed it to be feasible…

— Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath…

— Jon Landau

Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any…

— Wim Wenders

The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge…

— Ayn Rand

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

Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial…

— Charles R. Morris

If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions.…

— John Cudahy

Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it…

— Benjamin Creme

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to…

— Michael Merzenich

Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them…

— Mark Dvoretsky

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily…

— Horace Mann

I’m honored that PBteen has seen me as someone who can help a broader audience understand the need to use recycled, repurposed…

— Kelly Slater

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring…

— Orison Swett Marden

Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Presidential candidate Howard Dean is now being attacked for dodging the draft. I never knew this about the guy - but now…

— David Letterman

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on…

— David Salle

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material…

— Thomas Carlyle

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of…

— Anonymous

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for…

— Glenn Hughes

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding…

— Meyer Schapiro

I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is…

— Warren Buffett

Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath

— J.R. Ward

Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.

— Randy Gage

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such…

— John F. Carlson

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

— Victor Hugo

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

— Jeff Britting

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though…

— Will Ferrell

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him.…

— George Gershwin

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

— Harry S. Truman

The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way.

— Stacey Snider