Quotes of: Material-world Keyword

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

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.

Mike Thompson

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Neal Barnard

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

Kenny Marchant

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melo...

Miroslav Vitous

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

Joe Mansueto

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

Cecil Beaton