Materials Quotes
-
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 -
...well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but it never started to sing through the water. And no one ever found out why. The answer to this is slightly mystical because the sum of a crew is greater than its parts. Those eight heavyweights had not time to develop the bond, the sacred trust, that can make a racing eight fly.
Daniel Topolski
-
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.
William Mortensen -
Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.
Anna Journey -
Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.
Mother Teresa -
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.
Gerard K. O'Neill -
If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.
Debra Dean
-
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 -
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
Mike Figgis -
I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.
Redd Foxx -
At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
Abelardo Morell -
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.
Rudolf Arnheim -
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
Geoffrey Madan
-
It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.
Toby Stephens -
History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
Wilson Greatbatch -
Attention is the material I work with.
Tino Sehgal -
Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.
William M. Evarts -
The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
Stanley Kubrick -
Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is good. We would love to only do things that are art, that are artistic and that satisfy us, but this is our job, as well.
Michael Cudlitz
-
I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.
William Wegman -
It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.
Romany Malco -
I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.
Russell Peters -
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
Geraldine Brooks