Materials Quotes - Page 10

• Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

  Willa Cather

  Writing, Age, Fifteen

  Quoted in Rene¤ Rapin Willa Cather (1930).

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• It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

  Robin Gibb

  Focus, Solo, Right Time

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Reality, World

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• Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Gun, Fuel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

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• The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

  Carl G. Fisher

  Science, Rocks, America

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• We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Book, Science, Needs

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• History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Use, Arise, Method

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

  Karl Radek

  Views, Agitation, Mass

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• I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

  Tom Skerritt

  Trying, My Own, Direct

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• Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Motivational, Thinking, Discovery

  Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.

  Allan Kaprow

  Dog, Art, Light

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• The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

  Drew Endy

  Scope, I Can

  "From the cells up" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2005.

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• I was lucky enough to meet the Material Girl twice.

  Eric West

  Girl, Lucky, Enough

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• Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

  Jean Froissart

  Past, Times Past, Noble

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• The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Real, Example, May

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia S. Churchland, Dagfinn Føllesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.3, MIT Press

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• The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Horse, Men, Broken

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1862). “The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius”, p.106

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• The hand is the tool of tools.

  Aristotle

  Hands, Tools

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• I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

  David Rockefeller

  Friendship, Family, Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Men, Sea

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

  Martin Short

  Editing, Trying, Rooms

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 6, 2005.

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• What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Space, Variation, Body

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• I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

  Zaha Hadid

  Appreciated, Proportion, Dare

  "Zaha Hadid and United Nude Unveil the nOVa Shoe" by Becky Quintal, www.archdaily.com. July 5, 2013.

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• The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Discipline, Heaven, Occupation

  Frederick William Robertson (1880). “"The Human Race" and Other Sermons: Preached at Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton”

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• You begin with the possibilities of the material.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Architecture, Possibility

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• A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

  Fisher Ames

  Volcanoes, Democracy, Way

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends”, p.24

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