Best Materials Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.”

Writing Book Done Too Much Materials Port

“History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.”

People Humans Facts Fiction Example Materials Behavior Research Novelists Japan Factories Human Behavior Gloves Raw Materials Courtesans

Author:Amy Waldman

“One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.”

Years Three Deals Careers Four Materials Albums Hardest Release Four Years Hardest Thing

Author:Al Yankovic

“Actually, my friendships are changing because my friends have kids, so that's a new aspect to the material. Not just that I don't want to have kids, it's that I'm having a hard time relating to people I know.”

People Knows Want Hard Kids Materials My Friends Aspect Hard Times My Friendship Having A Hard Time

Author:Jen Kirkman

“Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition.”

World Ideas Choices Imagination Views Generations Creation Materials Concern Economics Surprise Determined Contrary Chemicals Superstitions Novelty Entrepreneurial Freedom Of Choice

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.”

Truth Desire Belief Freedom Responsibility Knowledge Greater Materials Comfort Intelligent Population Dread Rulers Interfere

Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.”

Used Artist Culture Courses Language Interest Christianity Audience Materials Genius Taste Capacity Accounts Paint Indifference Laziness Ignored Strict Marble Incompetence Tamed Haughty

Author:C. S. Lewis

“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

World Mind Form Artist Order Beauty Principles Taken Particular Materials Pure Shadow Ideals Tradition Absolutes Harmony Mere Inspired Bounds Cosmos Idealism Defects Representing Platonic

Author:John Walford

“Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.”

Ifs World Inspirational States Helping Awareness Materials Buddhism Depends Lows

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world.”

World Mind Meditation Materials Buddhism Illusion Empty Folds Material World

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”

Thinking Motivational Wealth Materials Source Achievement Discovery Gains Originals Invention New Discoveries Original Thought Discovery And Invention

Book:Magic of Believing

Source: Magic of Believing

“Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.”

Humans Kind Money Knowing Materials Activity Lifetime Species Riches All Kinds Engaged Isolated Material Things Human Species

Book:The Other Side of Life (Book #1, Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)

Source: The Other Side of Life (Book #1, Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)

“There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.”

Enough Actors Cry Materials Directors Plenty Good Enough Good Actors

Author:Mike Leigh

“My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.”

Believe Mean Made Philosophy Wanted Father Taken Achieve Materials Being Yourself Spoilt

Author:Tommy Lee

“Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.”

People Knows Has Beens Guy Situation Groups Materials Silent Single Women

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.”

Ifs Interesting Materials Originals Creator Offensive

Author:Christian Marclay

“Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.”

Use Rights Materials Benefits Goods Material Things Future Time

Book:Principles of Economics

Source: Principles of Economics

“No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.”

Persons Feelings Materials Music Is Material Things Passion For Music

Author:Barry Manilow

“The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.”

Used Purpose Values Cases Materials Plant Determined Experiments Utility

Book:Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence

Source: Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence

“If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.”

Ifs Kind Form Materials Tissues

Author:James McBride

“As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.”

People I Can Artist Materials Responsible Being Responsible

Author:Vince Vaughn

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Building Materials Capable Edges Surface Convinced Human Life Dull Scratches Richness Polished Absorbing

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.”

Thinking Writing Helping Teaching Students Materials Citizens Integrity Intellectual Depth Curriculum Teaching Students Bravo

Author:Sam Wineburg

“I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.”

Facts Written Materials Performances Fascinated Translate

Author:Raymond Cruz

“I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.”

Fun Materials

Author:Wanda Sykes

“I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Happens Stuff Materials Down And Notes Phones Come Up Always Thinking

Author:Wanda Sykes

“Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.”

Art Light Artist Water Generations Dog Objects Materials Thousand Paint Smoke Chairs Electric Sock Neon Neon Lights

Author:Allan Kaprow

“I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.”

Said Use Materials Resources China Lacking

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.”

People Children Cases Dangerous Materials Computer Pages Program Exposed Inappropriate Browsers Web Page

Author:Cliff Stearns

“The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build the cosmos.”

Different Matter Spirit Materials Cosmos Tissues

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.”

World Together Language Force Interest Powerful Common Teach Materials Benefits Universal Common Interests

Book:The cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton

Source: The cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton

“Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.”

Example Materials Benign Bacteria

Author:William Stringfellow

“I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.”

Thinking Has Beens Film Form My Own Walks Materials Cameras Scripts Cinema My Own Life

Author:Jonas Mekas

“Abundance is the natural state of the universe--of this there can be no doubt. Just as the number of stars in the heavens or drops of water in the ocean is beyond counting, so are the spiritual and material blessings that have been prepared for us.”

Has Beens States Spiritual Universe Heaven Stars Water Natural Numbers Doubt Materials Blessing Ocean Prepared No Doubt Abundance Counting Drop Of Water

Book:A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom

Source: A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom

“What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.”

Media Materials Backgrounds Mainstream Mainstream Media

Author:Jimmy Wales

“To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.”

People Knows Play Might Certain Realizing Numbers Audience Materials Degrees Music Is Originals Yeah Avant Garde

Author:Archie Shepp

“Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material.”

Said Might Interesting Materials Source

Author:Melita Norwood

“The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.”

Form Design Materials Acknowledge Best Design

Author:Jonathan Ive

“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.”

People Way Giving Trying Firsts Stills Important Hard Helping Form Three Understanding Break Missing Figures Objects Materials Tools Direct Presses Behave Digital Quests Impressive Rendering

Author:Jonathan Ive

“I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.”

Trying Ideas Hard Materials Handle Hard To Handle

Author:Dan Colen

“I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.”

Want Might Values Greater Materials Integrity Messages

Author:Wallace Stegner

“The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.”

Knows World Way Real Problem Reality Form Results Records Materials Aim Cameras Strive Photographer Chiefs Reality Of Life Real World Documentaries Truthfulness

Author:Paul Strand

“The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system.”

Materials Protective Immune Raw Materials Immune System

Book:Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free

Source: Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free

“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.”

Thinking Knows Use Age Used Artist House Materials Computer Paint Incredibles Oil Command Range Household Items Computer Systems Pollock

Author:Bill Viola

“My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.”

Ifs Knows Doe Stories Differences Audience Materials Tables Dinner Dinner Table

Author:Jackie Mason

“Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.”

People Ifs Humans Use Animal Millions Cutting Materials Waste Areas Increase Plant Billions Forests Soil Agriculture Acres Manure Cutting Down

Author:Norman Borlaug

“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.”

Wells Interest Community Common Television Materials Aim Independent Wide Traditional Range Owners Mainstream Common Interests

Author:Silvio Scaglia

“I was lucky enough to meet the Material Girl twice.”

Enough Girl Materials Lucky Material Girl

Author:Eric West

“Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.”

Book Brain Materials Reader Importance Contact Sparks Steel Quotations Luminous Matured

Book:Edge-tools of speech

Source: Edge-tools of speech

Materials Quotes

Related topics

Materials Quotes