Materials Quotes

2455 Materials quotes by 1763 unique authors

I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me. — Andrew Dice Clay
In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material. — Judah Friedlander
What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best. — Bryan Cranston
The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material. — Bryan Cranston
I am careful with my material and presentation. — Shelley Berman
I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever… — Mother Teresa
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647;… — Victor Hugo
God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service,… — Philo
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris.… — Barack Obama
A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the… — Grant Morrison
Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession — Robert S. Jepson, Jr.
Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material. — Garrison Keillor
Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors... — Spencer W. Kimball
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material. — John Dewey
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms… — Ayn Rand
The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving… — Ayn Rand
Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. — William J. Brennan
If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience… — Daniel Dennett
The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word… — Benedict Groeschel
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’ — Lucy R. Lippard
I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material… — Pope Francis
Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible. — Kelly Gallagher
The idea that human-transforming technology that mingles the dna of natural and synthetic beings and merges man with machines could somehow be used or even… — Thomas Horn
If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material… — John Yudkin
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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