When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Most of the designers are eco-friendly, even by default, through their use of up-cycled materials and organic fabrics, and by producing in… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success. — Les Brown Copy Share Image
It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
Being in deep devotion comes as a surprise the first time, because it is so difficult for people to feel even love,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to… — Sam Maloof Copy Share Image
Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image