Top 1200 Good Material Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons.

When I think of myself interacting with material that I like, that's the material that inherently appeals to me, that gives me room to have my own reaction.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl.

A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!

All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.

I just like doing things with people that I love and care about and trust to work with, and I care about good material and good content - as long as I'm doing that, I'm happy.

I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew... Albums are such autobiographical material, not in the material but as an expression of what you're like at the time.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something.

If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.

I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.

A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.

We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we’ve created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form, or material. My feeling is that most paintings, most films, most music, most literature and, indeed, most comics fail as "Art." A masterpiece in any genre, form or material is equally "good." It's ridiculous to impose a hierarchy of value on art. The division between high and low art is one that cannot be defended because it has no correlation to aesthetic response.

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.

A smile and good energy. They will take you farther than any material possession.

I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of material that's ended up in the book.

Something most people don't know about me is that I'm obsessed with technology. With that in mind, the 'material' I'd most like to experiment is the material that has yet to be invented.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

That's what I do in my stand-up. I work hard and hone the material and after a while audiences expect what I do to be good.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

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

Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for an hour without getting tired. They might have good material, but it's about theater to me.

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

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

My off-pitch style is probably girly and comfortable. I like a lot of loose-fitting material on top and more tight-fitting material on the bottom.

Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment.

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

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.

What does "living your best life" mean to you? Does it mean accumulating wealth and fulfilling all your material wants? Or, does it mean turning away from the material world in order to fully realize the gift of spirit? We often tend to think of these objectives as being mutually exclusive: material fulfillment or spiritual fulfillment, not both together.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.

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.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material, I mean so many books and so much stuff about what they really said. So, in a way it was kind of trying to strip it out and find the stories inside all this material.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.