Materials Quotes

2455 Materials quotes by 1763 unique authors

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat… — Renzo Piano
I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the… — Ann Veneman
Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie. — Lukas Haas
We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for… — Harry S. Truman
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more… — Howard S. Becker
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some… — Aaron Scharf
It is only by loving nature, and going to her for everything, that good work can be done; but then we must look to her… — Henry Peach Robinson
I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and… — Jim Hodges
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light… — George Santayana
When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for… — Gregory S. Paul
First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first studying the inspired… — Ezra Taft Benson
The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate… — Adrian Bejan
Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form. — William Walker Atkinson
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality,… — Calvin Coolidge
The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference. — Epictetus
It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the… — Indra Devi
We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we… — Melody Beattie
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have… — Susan L. Taylor
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy)… — Bernard Levin
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away… — Duane Elgin
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us… — Raoul Vaneigem
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly;… — E. M. Forster
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much… — Hart Crane
Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella — Nicki Minaj
Oh no we don't play with silly girls All I know is the material girls — Nicki Minaj

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