Materials Quotes · Page 81

It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation…

— Thomas Koerfer

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

— Tony Shalhoub

One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the…

— John Burroughs

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like…

— Clifford D. Simak

In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of…

— Patricia Hampl

... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

— Zaha Hadid

My stuff is generally quite collage-y anyway. So it's sort-of suited to gathering raw materials like shooting actors, then making stills or…

— Dave McKean

Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

I think meditation became truly a means to a deeper connection as I was searching for a deeper truth within myself. Meditation…

— Karan Bajaj

I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa,…

— Paul Robeson

... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable,…

— John Ruskin

It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have…

— Bonnie Canino

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

— Hod Lipson

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more…

— Ada Lovelace

The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

— Virginia Woolf

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

— Douglas J. Moo

Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the…

— Thomas A. Edison

Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

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

— Nikola Tesla

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there…

— George Strait

I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have…

— Kevin Hart

There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of…

— Mother Teresa

My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple…

— Gabriel Iglesias

Sometimes I am more interested in the richness of the material with all the stuff we've done which all tell a story…

— Larry Fessenden

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

— Ernest Hemingway

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

— Jerry Saltz

I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're…

— John Rzeznik

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a…

— Charles Templeton

Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe…

— Albert Einstein

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of…

— Robert Longo

The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet…

— Bill McKibben

People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have…

— Mabel Seeley

For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material…

— DJ Spooky

In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern…

— David Adjaye

The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams…

— Anonymous

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

— Alexander Payne

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I…

— Lupita Nyong'o