Top 1200 Material Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
I’m a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.
With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.
I was always against starting the show with new material because the fans don't know it. They just look at you, and it's not explosive.
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.
In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons].
The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.
I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.
It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.
The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
I still do get a little bit nervous at the beginning of Maiden tours but that's mainly because of the new material.
It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.
I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and life.
A fool has not material enough to be good.
[Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]
We like to challenge ourselves, and having new material and presenting it to the world is fun and exciting and fresh.
Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Whatever project I sign up for, I try to familiarize myself with the material as much as possible before I start.
Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.
Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.
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.
The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.
There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.
Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.
As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.
It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.
I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.
It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.
You've got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens - that's what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did.
