Top 1200 Material Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material.
I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.
I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.
Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon anyways, if you caych my drift.
I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.
I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.
I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.
No country anywhere in the world allows material that genuinely puts national security at risk into the public domain, and that includes a courtroom.
I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.
If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
Blue Origin's successful capsule escape demonstration represents a material step toward a fully re-usable sub-orbital vehicle.
That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.
For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for awhile, that's fine with me.
When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.
Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.
The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard tube.
What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.
I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external.
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.
My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.
The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
I get to the point where I feel relaxed, and then I just shoot a ton of material and make a lot of different choices.
I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.
Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.
It's not as if Trump is addicted to the best-researched, most in-depth, meticulously sourced material in the world. If he were, we'd all be better off, right?
It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world.
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.
