Materials Quotes - Page 8

• I am careful with my material and presentation.

  Shelley Berman

  Careful, Presentation

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

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• Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.

  Georg Ernst Stahl

  Fire, Principles, Hot

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• Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Stupid, Eye, Agitation

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• I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

  Alan Greenspan

  Life, Success, Business

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• The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Law, Chemistry, States

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• A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Art, Opportunity, Stronger

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• Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

  Theophile Gautier

  Beautiful, Process, Marble

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• There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Different, Might

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• Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

  John Dewey

  Education, Mean, Science

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Understanding, World, Action

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• Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

  Tom Skerritt

  Talking, Vision, Directors

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• Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished from the ruins of former continents, from the dissolution of rocks, or the destruction of animal or vegetable bodies, similar, at least in some respects, to those that now occupy the surface of the earth.

  John Playfair

  Science, Animal, Rocks

  John Playfair, James George Playfair (1822). “Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth”, p.32

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• Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Music, Art, Singers

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• If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Mean, Firsts, Ancestry

  "Speaking of Science Fiction". Book by Paul Walker, 1978.

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• I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

  Leon Redbone

  Different, Location, Strange

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• I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung

  Gavin DeGraw

  Real, Thinking, Soul

  "Gavin Degraw remembers NYC struggles, knows his place" by Carolyn E. Davis, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2005.

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• The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is subjected to certain mechanical and, mainly, chemical processing, and then, through innumerable side-streets, it is brought into the depot of the body. Aside from this basic series of institutions, along which the raw material moves, there is a series of lateral chemical manufactories, which prepare certain reagents for the appropriate processing of the raw material.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Moving, Science, Long

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• I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

  Kate Clinton

  Eugenics, Cds, Trying

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• I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

  William Whipple

  Giving Up, Thinking, Satisfaction

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• Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

  Adam Sandler

  Girl, Boys, World

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• I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

  John Fogerty

  Way, Coming Back

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• There's more to life than physical and material.

  Ziggy Marley

  Redemption, More To Life

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from May 29, 2012

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• The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Stuff, Fit

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• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  Ed Pastor

  Country, Nuclear, Barcelona

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• With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

  Edward Carpenter

  Rude, Mind, Details

  Edward Carpenter (1984). “Selected Writings: Sex”

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