“I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.” MindPaintingMaterialsHundredPainterBridgesSpectatorsPretextMaterial Things Author:Eugene Delacroix
“The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.” KnowsWorldWellsMayMaterialsMajorsHundredAdvantageTwentiesBillsDollarsFinancialBillionsRussiaFiftyCurrencyReservesDollar Bills Author:Robert C. Solomon
“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.” MayTwoWarUseHandsOrderCoursesForceNationsMaterialsEqualTrainingHundredResourcesTasksUnityObviousSpeedDefenseNeighborPursueOpponentsFortyEquipmentEmergenciesJuneHarnessNineteenDaggersSimultaneous Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.” WorldYearsHas BeensMadeAmericaPastChallengesRecordsProgressCenturyMaterialsAchievementHundredFiftyEnterpriseWorld History Author:Karl Taylor Compton
“People have material needs, but you don't need a deodorant for every different day of the week. You don't need four hundred varieties of mustard. This is what I call too many choices. There are too many choices in America.” PeopleNeedsDifferentAmericaChoicesFourWeekMaterialsHundredVarietyMustardDays Of The WeekDeodorantDifferent Day Author:George Carlin
“You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.” KnowsGivingKindStillsI CanEnoughUseFilmCertainWatchesAudienceFiveMaterialsHundredMarketingSurprising Author:Christopher McQuarrie
“There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsKindMadeIdeasRememberNamesInterestingMaterialsHundredAspectBreatheMade ItAtmosphereGreekGasPoeticTranslateIntriguingNeonXenon Author:Robert Barry
“But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.” YearsRealSoulMatterLastsHumanityThreeBeliefSpaceAnimalTechnologyFiveObjectsMaterialsDegreesLowsHundredToolsSkinsUltimateOrganizationSpeciesFlyingTechnologicalPsychicsJewelryFiltersEmbeddedReefsSpace ShuttleFlying Saucers Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival