Material Quotes

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I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history,… — Leon Redbone
Jackie [Kennedy] wore one of my dresses â€“ it was made from kitchen curtain material â€“ and people went crazy. — Lilly Pulitzer
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why… — Helmut Jahn
The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality. — Philip Wylie
The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity… — Pentti Linkola
A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized… — Gregg Easterbrook
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some… — Heinz Pagels
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design,… — Nan Fairbrother
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens… — Dorothea Brande
If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the whole you, the… — Rod Stryker
Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful.… — Robert Henri
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It… — Al Yankovic
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how… — Terry Eagleton
We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we donâ€™t see God right in front of us, in the beggar,… — Andrew Harvey
When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it… — Edgar Winter
God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material. — Matt Chandler
Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon… — Zach Braff
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial,… — Medard Boss
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one… — Wolf Kahn

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