Materials Quotes - Page 2

• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  Imelda Marcos

  Girl, Daughter, Fathers Day

  TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.

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• Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Rooms, Obstacles

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• Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Moral Growth, Comfort

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Intelligent

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• One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.

  Ralph Merkle

  Confidence, Air, Stronger

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

  Beth Orton

  Glowing, Hands, Generations

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• We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

  Arthur Blank

  Home, Years, People

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• To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Dance, Men

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• On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

  Colleen Atwood

  Team, Apes, Online

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• And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

  Henry Taube

  Science, Understanding, Benefits

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• Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Animal, Energy, Way

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments”, Fine Communications

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• Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Challenges, Fascination, Clumsiness

  Helen Frankenthaler, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (1980). “Helen Frankenthaler prints, 1961-1979”, HarperCollins

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• 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

  Food, Giving, Fuel

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• The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

  Gary Lucas

  Baby, Hands, Desire

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• The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

  Arthur Henderson

  Peace, Powerful, Intellectual

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• When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Planning, Management, Projects

  Yoshio Taniguchi (1996). “The Japan Architect”

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• Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

  Simone Weil

  Real, History, Imagination

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

  Christopher Bond

  Jobs, America, Battle

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• Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Raw Materials, Paper

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• If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

  James McBride

  Tissues, Kind, Form

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• The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

  Goldwin Smith

  Real, Humanity, Novelists

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

  John Hersey

  Children, Fall, Vision

  John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Race, Robots

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

  Robert Quillen

  Science, Space, Wish

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