Top 1200 Material Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

You know what the material is so that you never play it the same way twice.

I prepare for auditions differently depending on what it is - what the material is, what the project is, who I'm reading for.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

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

The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who they wanted to take over, they wanted pliant government, figures, structures, they wanted to continue indirectly in effect their control over much of their colonial possessions and this was one of the very early causes of conflict.

You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

I really appreciate the everyday stuff as far as material.

I really just got married for the material, to tell you the truth.

I could see us doing solo material in the future.

Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

I think when you're dealing with faith, you want to be as responsible and sensitive to the material as you can.

I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.

We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.

The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.

Food can be a material, and you can use it as a way to project concepts.

Generating comic material can sometimes get the better of you.

I'm a huge fan of comedy. I write material whenever I can.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly to the fact that no such person as King Arthur ever presided over a Round Table. Be this as it may, romance still hugs her heroes to her heart as possessions to be not willingly let die.

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

Trust me; I have not exactly been the best husband material.

Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.

All you have to do is do a little bit of research and a floodgate of material comes your way.

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Often when you're working on dark material, the atmosphere is fun.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

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

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

Put your resources, your assets, your money and possessions, your time and talents and energies into the things of God. As surely as the compass needle follows north, your heart will follow your treasure. Money leads; hearts follow.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

Let's face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.

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

The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless.

A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.

The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.