Material Quotes

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Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. — Graham Hancock
Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do. — Daniel Baldwin
Each material is only what we make it. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light.Â What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow… — Louis Kahn
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled… — Louis Kahn
Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture. — Isamu Noguchi
For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which… — Isamu Noguchi
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to. — Wallace Stegner
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong.… — Gary Snyder
We now haveÂ irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high… — Dick Cheney
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can… — Mark Twain
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing… — Barack Obama
One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning,… — Edward Weston
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru… — Edward Abbey
I don't think I'm going to be priest material. — Lionel Richie
The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of… — James Truslow Adams
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,… — Frederick Jackson Turner
I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of… — Vikram Seth
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and… — Allan Bloom

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