In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption through the acceptance of the… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
My show is an anti-show and the audience have to want to listen. I'm sitting down, there's only one of me, I… — Jose Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important… — L. Brent Bozell, Jr Copy Share Image
American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use… — Wolfgang Ostwald Copy Share Image
Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting;… — William James Copy Share Image
The most challenging thing about this one was the vast amount of material we had at our disposal. We had a lot… — Lisa Immordino Vreeland Copy Share Image
It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
It is a fatal mistake to assume that God’s goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image