Material Quotes
2445 quotes by 1849 authors
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The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how…
— Andrew Shue
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My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody…
— John Mellencamp
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One of the things I have been arguing about - and slowly they maybe coming around - is tjat I personally don't believe in aliens.…
— J. T. Walsh
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
— J. T. Walsh
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Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children in the gospel…
— Quentin L. Cook
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Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.
— Nick Stahl
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The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a…
— Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.....
— Salvatore Ferragamo
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Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.
— Nadeem Aslam
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A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.
— Serge Nubret
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Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve.…
— Ayya Khema
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Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty…
— Nadeem Aslam
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Because life is short. I feel we’re made of a hunger, a desire for life – if that can be described as a material. As…
— Sarah Slean
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Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.
— Yoko Ogawa
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The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.
— Roy DeCarava
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What I think I do is to relate any new material to how similar it is to something else. The closest that I can come…
— Tal Farlow
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I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary…
— Timothy Bottoms
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We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.
— Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very…
— Aldo Leopold
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Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely…
— Christopher Nolan
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