Material Quotes

2445 Material quotes by 1790 unique authors

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. — Dane Cook
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness.… — Francis Ford Coppola
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. — Billy Corgan
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material… — Rachel Cusk
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I… — Rachel Cusk
I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die. — Louis C. K.
It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally. — Louis C. K.
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can… — Jim Dale
The big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got a lot more material to work with… — Claire Danes
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition,… — Mitch Daniels
People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the… — Eric Davis
Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material. — John Deacon
In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It… — Alan Dershowitz
If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war… — John Dingell
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and… — Terry Eagleton
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate? — Umberto Eco
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition… — Brian Eno
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. — Richard L. Evans
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those… — Jerry Falwell
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing… — Colin Farrell
I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was… — Will Ferrell
I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself… — Harvey Fierstein
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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