Materials Quotes

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

Anytime you open a business, you have to be effective in promoting whether it's a franchise or not. You'll need to learn to be a Web marketer extraordinaire. There's plenty of material out there.

The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials.

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I would constantly build and create fantasy worlds.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

Whether it's dangerous materials being smuggled across the border, terrorists entering on visas or Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers, these are the problems we must now focus on fixing.

CNN says it did not share its coverage materials with any candidate, party or campaign and says it was completely uncomfortable with [Donna] Brazile's involvement with the [Hillary] Clinton camp.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.

I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

I didn't know how to grab your best material and put it together into a comedy set. I would just choose subjects and do it onstage. That's what I learned. I didn't know how to put a set together.

It took me a very long time to realize that inherently the materials have this beautiful quality without me having to impose meaning onto them.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

I guess what this is reflecting is my own search for answers that I can't find. Frank [Moore Cross] and I have examined a lot of archaeological materials in the hope of finding out.

There is no material universe. There is no reality. All that exists are images.

Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

I can always create new material. That's something I can control.

While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue.

During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists.

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

I did not email any classified material to anyone. There is no classified material.

I take classified materials very seriously and always have.

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

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

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.

People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.

If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

There's no shortage of material in life.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.