Top 1200 Good Material Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.

God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

Directing is so dope to me, man, 'cause it doesn't necessarily have to be your material. You're making someone else's material come to life. There's something amazing about that.

My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens ... I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

I don't want to do something, if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

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.

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do good, and they have been provided by God for the good of men: they are at hand and serve as the material, the instruments for a good use in the hand of him who knows how to use them.

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).

Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

If your child really loves art, get them some good brushes. Get good material and make them feel that what they do is important.

I tend to be attracted to material that has a tough edge to it - darker material.

We're not quite mainstage material. We're more like outhouse material!

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

When I started my pathway, black players were often considered to be good wingers, good players, but not captain or management material. It has changed since then, which is pleasing, but we still have so far to go.

You never know how things work and what exactly is going to grab an audience. Sometimes even the best material and the best collection of people interpreting that material just for some reason doesn't fly with people. There are a lot of TV shows or movies that maybe aren't as good as others that do work when it comes to finding an audience. It's a mystery, that whole thing. If somebody figured it out, this would be quite a great industry.

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material forgets all about censoring herself. She doesn't stop to wonder if her book is any good, or who will publish it, or what people will think. She writes in a trance, losing track of time, hearing only her characters in her head.

My agents and my managers are very good at whittling things down to the things they think I would be good at and that I'd respond well to, and that includes theater, TV and film. Whatever it is, if the material is right for me, then I'll go for it.

Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding.

I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Most of my material is , it doesn't necessarily involve a lot of editing. So even the show with the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, I don't have to worry about some of the material being inappropriate.

It's not that I hate all of my material - I think it was good. I liked it. I just don't ever want to hear it.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

It [moviemaking] is not really done on a yearly basis. It's about how the material, and when the material comes in. If you develop your material and the script comes in great and you can attach a director and a cast and go off and make it, then I could make, I don't know, six [movies] a year. Or I could make one. It really depends.

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.

I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.

Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is good. We would love to only do things that are art, that are artistic and that satisfy us, but this is our job, as well.

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

I think that if you're a good enough actor you hope that eventually the material will find you.

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

'Cheers' was a good first step because I got to write my own material.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.

I don't put my nose up at anything if the material is good.

I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.