Material Quotes

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And as He has given, "In all thy getting, my Son, get understanding." This is putting proper emphasis in the proper places, and do not… — Edgar Cayce
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance. — Alex Haley
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it… — Harriet Doerr
They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here… — Ann Macbeth
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child… — Mark Foley
To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart. Every human learns one day or another to become softer. Some… — Shams Tabrizi
We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful? — Tom Ford
This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that… — Dean Koontz
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to… — Helen Garner
Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom. — Pema Chodron
You donâ€™t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU. — Lee Friedlander
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted. — Francine Prose
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of… — George Gershwin
Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in… — Rickie Lee Jones
Perhaps the most reliable route to meaning and joy, to plunging below the surface and seeking more than the superficiality of material ambition, is connection… — Michael Short
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of… — Peter Brook
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place! — Pope Francis
The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the… — Tom Waits
The problems in the world were made so that you donâ€™t get stuck and attached to this world. You get stuck with this world even… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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