Top 1200 Material Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

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

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

The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

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

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

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

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

It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

I could see us doing solo material in the future.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

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

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.

I don't actually read that much. I like movies a bit more. That's how I come up with ideas - by seeing things, hearing things, recycling things. Stealing things!

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

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

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

I do like two hours of new material every year.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

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

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

There's all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don't fit into a 90-minute experience, but it's still content and people still want to see it. It's being open to [the fact that] the business is changing and being open to how you can make money to afford you to stay in business to keep making new things. I think you just have to have an open mind and be really smart about stuff and not be so locked into the conventional way of how the process used to go.

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.

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

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

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

As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.

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

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

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

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

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

Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is Spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All of the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature.

"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.