Raw Material Quotes

97 quotes by 88 authors

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials… — Deepak Chopra
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have… — C.S. Lewis
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. — Eric Hoffer
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. — Ambrose Bierce
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously… — Henry David Thoreau
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. — Thomas Carlyle
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that… — Eudora Welty
Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the… — Ravi Zacharias
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material. — Dorothy Richardson
Hope is the raw material of losers. — Fernando Flores
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. — Geoffrey Madan
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold
Data are becoming the new raw material of business. — Craig Mundie
Time is the explicable raw material of everything. — Arnold Bennett
Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything… — Twyla Tharp
I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does… — James Franco
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very… — Aldo Leopold

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