Materials Quotes

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Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. — Ronald Reagan
Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and… — Kofi Annan
A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and… — Marvin J. Ashton
In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material… — Adolf Hitler
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've… — Ted Solotaroff
Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen… — Willa Cather
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. — Geoffrey Madan
Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role in… — Unknown Author
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent… — Noam Chomsky
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well… — Ray Bradbury
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story.… — Flannery O'Connor
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it… — Flannery O'Connor
I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that… — Aldous Huxley
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. — Nigel Dennis
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I… — Lee Friedlander
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection… — Paul Caponigro
I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a… — Paul Caponigro
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants… — Aaron Siskind

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