Top 1200 Natural Materials Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I am constantly looking to push boundaries with materials, bring in new weights, and work in fabrics unexpectedly.

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.

There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.

If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.

I mean, we're - if I may say so - we're experts at using materials and processes in ways for which they were never intended.

When I did inventions, I always thought only of the invention itself, but the kids would ask for marketing materials.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

[We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV.

President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.

Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

Knee-length dresses are a fetish. They can be in different materials or lengths, but they work just right for me.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

If you accuse me of being on drugs because I'm very focused on what I do, because I'm very serious, because I'm very hungry, because I can squat 800 lbs, because I can bench 500 lbs, because I can press 315 behind my neck, and if these things don't fit under what you consider to be natural, then I don't want to be a natural. I don't want to be what you depict as a natural. I want to define myself for me.

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change.

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

I wear like lip gloss and my hair is always really natural, and I'm a really kind of natural free spirit in my everyday life who has crystals and I burn sage, and I think I find a lot of calming beauty in that stuff.

Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

I love pairing bright details with simple looks or casual materials like denim or cotton.

Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

My spray-tan woman is amazing. She comes to my house at 10 o'clock the night before a shoot. The results are so brown, flawless, and natural. It's just weird because my natural skin color is very white, almost whitish yellow.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

In order to encourage the cattle farmers to raise a herd of all-natural cattle, which is a several-year process, they have to know that it's not just Shake Shack that wants to buy it. They have to have other buyers who are willing to pay more for all natural.

The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.