Materials Quotes - Page 7

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

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

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.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I do like directing other people's material.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did."

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth... will also become the raw material for the art you make.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.