Quotes of: Material-things Keyword

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

Breakfast of Champions

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

Ernest Lawrence

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

Mike Birbiglia

For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larg...

Steven Holl

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Emil Nolde

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

Leland Ryken

Much though we like these panties," he says, tugging at the small material covering my pulsating sex, "they're only going to be in the way...

The Abduction

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

...the world is only the visible aspect of God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material plane.

The Alchemist

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

History of the Russian Revolution

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

I Learn from Children

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.

Ideas Have Consequences

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.

Shopaholic Ties the Knot

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith

There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.

The Man Who Bridged the Mist

At time I find the true material of my spirit, this earthly body is no longer my only vessel.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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

The Songlines

Death is the destiny of every man. I shall not worry over material wealth.

Think Great: Be Great: Beautiful Quotes

My mustache can be your toothbrush for the one-time low cost of $1.23. Each mustoothbrush is made from 100% recycled material.

Xazaqazax

Materialize what you want with cooperation of other people not by depriving them.

Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

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