Material Quotes

2445 Material quotes by 1790 unique authors

I never want to cannibalize my act, and I'm really excited that I am going to be able to perform new material. I'm not a… — Daniel Tosh
If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you… — Zhuangzi
If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law. — Kenneth Lay
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. — Stanislav Grof
Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years. — Jay Sankey
I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own… — Jason Mraz
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make… — Jason Mraz
There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work. — Heinrich Heine
Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is. — P.J. O'Rourke
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying… — Earle Brown
Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person’s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for… — Werner Erhard
I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty… — Benjamin Graham
I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man… — Freeman Tilden
We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but… — Euell Gibbons
Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress… — Bill Mollison
The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way. — Stacey Snider
Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material. — Michael Heizer
For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be… — Harry S. Truman
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. — George Edmund Street
I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material that… — Greg Mankiw
Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print. — Hod Lipson
I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on… — Dylan Moran
As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but… — Wen Jiabao
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it. — Robert Breault
In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs… — Dalai Lama

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