Quotes of: Material-things Keyword

The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.

Exodus: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Berger

A sturdy hold, but I think there's something up with the material.

The Village Idiot Reviews

When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.

Voice of Reason

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Jennifer Egan

I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'

Janel Moloney

The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.

Neil MacGregor

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Philo of Alexandria

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Philip Wylie

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

Simon McBurney

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

Sarah Silverman

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

Tom Stoppard

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

Kate Clinton

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

Kenneth Edmonds

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

Laurance Rockefeller

Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker.

Marek Belka

I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.

Maria Bamford

School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

Richard Rhodes

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.

Rainer Maria Rilke