Materials Quotes

2455 Materials quotes by 1763 unique authors

There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal;… — Freeman Dyson
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us .… — Gerard K. O'Neill
If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in… — Dani Shapiro
It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided,… — Adolf Hitler
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases,… — Adolf Hitler
[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me… — Terry Brooks
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition,… — Edmund Burke
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways. — Bertrand Russell
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human… — Stefan Zweig
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit… — Jonathan Sacks
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen,… — Asa Gray
I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood… — Leon Battista Alberti
Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see. — John D. Barrow
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your… — Alice Munro
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat. — Samora Machel
My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of… — Abdellatif Laabi
A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material. — Kevin Nealon
When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together. — Kevin Nealon
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat… — Julia Cameron
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are… — Benjamin Haydon
If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter… — James Forrestal
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be… — Hugo Ball
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within… — Bill Dixon
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. — Stephen Ambrose

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