Materials Quotes

2455 Materials quotes by 1763 unique authors

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even… — Elfriede Jelinek
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. — Wes Jackson
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as… — Mary Oliver
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are… — Rudolf Steiner
As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself. — Marie-Louise von Franz
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue… — Yves Klein
Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big… — Tony Abbott
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which… — Felix Frankfurter
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I… — Potter Stewart
Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not… — Ted Nelson
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution,… — Barbara Hepworth
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies. — Hippolyte Taine
When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The… — R C Sproul
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century… — Anthony Burgess
I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being… — Steven Pressfield
A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind on his work,… — Henry Peach Robinson
I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to,… — Kathryn Bigelow
I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but… — Michel Gondry
The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed. — Dixie Lee Ray
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds… — Ben Shahn
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. — Abdelaziz Bouteflika
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part… — Enoch Powell
All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself,… — Stefan Zweig
Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course.… — Stella Gibbons

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