Materials Quotes

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

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

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

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

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

Each material is only what we make it.

I am the original Material Girl.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

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

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not do before. flexible enough to change.

Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization.

Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

Class is material consumed.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.