Top 1200 Material Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

Music is what I care about. Not material things.

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

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

To measure success with material things is failure!

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

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.

I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to the director and to the source material. It's really important.

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

When something changes in Episode 7, you have to then begin moving things around, shuffling things backwards. Once you start moving material into it, that can derail your whole arc.

There are only so many material things you can have before it becomes boring.

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

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.

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.

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

The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.

Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.

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

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 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.

Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.

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

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

The overwhelming majority of my material has very little to do with my weight. It's certainly not the crux of my material.

When I was a player the mentality was black people would make good players but weren't captain material or managerial material. That stereotyping existed.

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

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

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.

Success has to be an inside job. Happiness does not come from external material things. Even people don't make us ultimately happy. It's how we choose to deal with those things that happen in our lives that matters.

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

I don't feel like material things validate me in any way.

I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.

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.

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

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.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

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

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

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.

Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

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

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.

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

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.

These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.

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 don't like to attach myself to material things.

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

A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.

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.

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

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

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.