Materials Quotes
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Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?
Vladimir Nabokov -
To go from the vision that we would all be free to express ourselves creatively because our material needs were being met, to this reality where nobody has money, people are unemployed, and the machines are harnessed by the lucky guys who Facebook or Google and we're supposed to be happy just to contribute content to their site.
Astra Taylor
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As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.
Michael B. Jordan -
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
Sara Sheridan -
The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
Baron Vaughn -
I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.
Corrie Ten Boom -
What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?
Josiah Strong -
The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.
Caroline Pratt
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There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.
Stevie Smith -
What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
Theresa Breslin -
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
John Stuart Mill -
I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.
Sarah Silverman -
You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
Wole Soyinka -
When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.
Nicholas Stoller
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We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of color is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.
Carlo Carra -
The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
Steve Albini Big Black -
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
Hart Crane -
Organisms themselves are relatively transient entities through which materials and energy flow and eventually return to the environment.
Colin Fletcher -
When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
Walt Whitman -
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
Victor Hugo
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In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
Nicolas Kent Stahl -
Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.
William S. Burroughs -
I'd just like to say "thank you" to President Bush and to the men and women of the US military, who by the New York Times' own admission took out a terror-sponsoring regime in Iraq that could have constructed a nuclear weapon within months, as soon as sanctions were lifted enough for them to obtain sufficient fissile material.
Charles Foster Johnson -
They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.
Carol Leifer