Materials Quotes

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.

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.

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

The perfumer fakes nature by blending different types of materials to reproduce their scent.

For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.

I just don't like my voice in the studio, and I just don't like the studio, I'm not a studio-head. And that's why you don't get so much material from me.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

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

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

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

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials

Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel.