Materialistic Quotes

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

I'm not a materialistic person.

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.