Materials Quotes - Page 8

The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

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

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.

I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.

What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

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

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

Material things aren't important to me.

To measure success with material things is failure!

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all

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

Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.