Material Quotes
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
Edward Carpenter
In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.
Carol Burnett
Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
Tom Skerritt
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Philip Schaff
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
Mary Garden
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
Branch Rickey
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
Julian Assange
As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
Atom Egoyan
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
Nick Stahl
Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.
Mark Rydell
Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.
Howard Stern
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
Samantha Morton
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.
Norman McLaren
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos
The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
Steve Albini
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
Brian De Palma
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
James Lovelock
I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.
George Strait
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
Trofim Lysenko
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
Kate Clinton
I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.
Sergio Aragones
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
Anish Kapoor