Material Quotes

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

I think the fans of the old-school Internet shorts were a little bit older just because it was racier material.

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

I do like directing other people's material.

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.