Material Quotes

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I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad.… — Sutton Foster
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and… — Johan Huizinga
We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl. — Madonna Ciccone
I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker.… — Francis Ford Coppola
A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it… — G. H. Hardy
Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with… — Kool Moe Dee
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living… — Arthur C. Clarke
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete. — Carl G. Fisher
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material… — G. H. Hardy
We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material. — J. C. R. Licklider
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false… — Herbert Marcuse
Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of… — Russell Peters
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it... — Henri Frederic Amiel
I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which does not require… — Rene Descartes
Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and… — Karl Evang
Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested… — Karl Evang
The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The world would have you believe that you are of worth only if you have money, a certain physical appearance, stylish clothes, or social position.… — Elaine L. Jack

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