Material Quotes

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Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material. — Morgan Freeman
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which… — Henry Ward Beecher
If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is differentâ€”it is not… — Neal Stephenson
The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it… — Marcus Aurelius
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,… — Mark Twain
Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction. — Thomas Jefferson
I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material. — Joan Rivers
Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in… — Pablo Picasso
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then… — Hartley Coleridge
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. — Og Mandino
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new… — Georges Braque
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be… — Charles Darwin
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result… — Thomas Sowell
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison… — Thomas Sowell
Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier.… — Thomas Sowell
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over… — Ayn Rand
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it… — Remy de Gourmont
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. — Guillaume Apollinaire

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