Materials Quotes - Page 4

God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.

Class is material consumed.

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

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

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.

We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

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

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

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

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

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.

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

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

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.

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.