Material Quotes

2445 Material quotes by 1790 unique authors

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
The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper… — Jane Campion
What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach… — Michael Chabon
It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or… — John Frankenheimer
Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old… — Merle Haggard
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it. — Seth Grahame-Smith
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. — Stephen Gardiner
I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I… — Val Guest
History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise. — Wilson Greatbatch
With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. — Lena Headey
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a… — Carl Hiaasen
Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out… — Jay Hernandez
I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have… — Tony Hale
In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a… — Walter Rudolf Hess
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from… — Zahi Hawass
As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do. — Michael B. Jordan

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