Materials Quotes - Page 9

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

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

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

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

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.

I am totally unattached to material items.

If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

I prefer the material woman.

Knowing how to market yourself and your press materials is key.

We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests, or even raw materials that we produce on our land, or even land itself. We see it in terms of what we can exploit rather than the medium in which all of these activities have to take place.

I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

Gandhi was a David with no material weapon.. not even a slingshot.

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.

The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.

Attention is the material I work with.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial.

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.