Materials Quotes

When delivering something like an important letter or other written materials, grasp it firmly in your hand as you go and do not release it once, but hand it over directly to the recipient.

It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with 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.

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

Art should be born from the materials.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

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I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.

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

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

To measure success with material things is failure!

Material things aren't important to me.

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway' - like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

I believe that every artist has his or her own vision of the world; our job as artists is to find and express that vision. The most important thing is to keep exploring, yourself and your materials.

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.

A lot of my material was based on my family.

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.