Materials Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Fashion, Style, Needs

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

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• I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

  Ronald Biggs

  Art, School, London

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Literature, World

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Presidential, Political

  "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Victory, Well Being

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. 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

  Moving, Science, Numbers

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• I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

  Dane Cook

  Writing, Comedy, Spontaneity

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• Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

  Billy Corgan

  Cat, Thinking, Culture

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• What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

  Trey Parker

  Issues, Connections, Social

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• I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.

  Georges Braque

  Mean, Discovery, Substance

  "Cahiers d'Art" by Dora Vallier, p. 76, 1954.

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• Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

  Alan Ladd

  Strong, Enough, Weak

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• Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Reading, Prejudice, Literature

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• Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Political, Disease

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

  Rebecca West

  Real, War, Glasses

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

  Lucinda Williams

  Trying, Just Being, Looks

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• First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Money

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• A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

  Graham Greene

  Movie, Book, Actors

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• If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night.

  Kathy Griffin

  Friday, Night, Different

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• As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

  Roberta Flack

  Inspiring, Voice, People

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• The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

  Walter Martin

  Success, Congratulations, Medicine

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• I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

  Shirley Jackson

  Fake People, Writing, Giving

  Shirley Jackson (2008). “The Lottery”, p.28, The Creative Company

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• This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to beat, but the heart exists and even beats before the blood reddens.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Heart, Science, Blood

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• Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Nature, Truth

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• Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

  Billy Joel

  Careers, Together, Whole

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• I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

  Alicia Keys

  Life Is, Happens, Material Things

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