Material Quotes

2445 Material quotes by 1790 unique authors

I am the original Material Girl. — Eartha Kitt
Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things. — Eartha Kitt
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. — Jeff Koons
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render… — Tony Kushner
I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me. — Ashton Kutcher
I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama… — Ashton Kutcher
Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material. — Alan Ladd
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks -… — Jon Landau
Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism -… — Robert Lanza
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to… — Jennifer Lopez
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. — James Lovelock
I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms… — Norm MacDonald
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. — Imelda Marcos
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual… — Wynton Marsalis
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage… — Steve Martin
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. — Karl Marx
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. — Karl Marx
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is… — Karl Marx
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. — Andre Maurois
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of… — Joyce Maynard
I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing… — Danny McBride
I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a… — Bruce McCulloch
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance,… — Norman McLaren
Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of… — Russell Means

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