Top 1200 Material Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.
Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath
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.
When I was sent the material for auditions for 'Dramaworld,' I didn't know much about the international fandom surrounding Korean dramas.
Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.
My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.
Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.
I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.
Today, the L.A. Times accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping six women. I'm telling ya, this guy is presidential material.
Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.
Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.
[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.
It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.
Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality about them when they write the material.
I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.
You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination.
With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.
Since I was a child, I've been playing children. When I was little, I was the kid that you'd hire to do the reading or workshop of your new material.
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.
I certainly immerse myself in as many crazy Hollywood events as I can because you never know where you can pick up material.
I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.
It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung
I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.
Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material.
A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.
'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.
Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.
The wonderful thing about sound is that it is invitational, so ultimately each person is going to find their own relation to the material.
One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
The film world is always looking for great source material, and Broadway has traditionally and historically been a place to go.
I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.
The Internet is a very exciting way of doing material that's uncensored, and doesn't have to go through TV committees, and people aren't telling you what you can and can't do.
To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.
