Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of… — Eliza Bennett Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at… — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I've found that knowing the material or the policy or the facts better than anyone else in the room is so empowering… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat. — Samora Machel Copy Share Image
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special,… — Jim Atkinson Copy Share Image
Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
