Materials famous quotes

I don't compose. I assemble materials.
-- Aaron Copland

#Materials

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
-- Alan Kay

#Language #Building #Materials

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
-- Alan Watts

#Inspirational #Pleasure #Materials

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.
-- Amit Goswami

#Spiritual #Materials

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Materials

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Long #Term #Materials

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.
-- Antoni Tapies

#Body #Materials

The hand is the tool of tools.
-- Aristotle

#Hands #Tools #Materials

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Time #Raw Materials #Materials

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Past #Film #Materials

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.
-- Babyface

#Style #Band #Materials

No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
-- Barry Manilow

#Feelings #Music Is #Materials

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
-- Barry Schuler

#Differences #Equal #Materials

What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
-- Bill Crawford

#Mind #Materials

I do like directing other people's material.
-- Brian De Palma

#People #Materials

Painting is so much more than the materials.
-- Brian Johnson

#Painting #Materials

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Actors #Able #Materials

The biggest things in life are not materials.
-- Carlos Slim

#Materials

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
-- Cathy Guisewite

#Funny Life #World #Materials

The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.
-- Charlize Theron

#Hands #Ruined #Materials

I'm really not good blackmail material.
-- Chris Colfer

#Materials #Blackmail

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
-- Christian Marclay

#Interesting #Offensive #Materials

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
-- Dan Brown

#Writing #Materials

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
-- Daniel Baldwin

#Chance #Homicide #Materials

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.
-- David Batchelor

#Essentials #Use #Materials

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.
-- David Milne

#Painting #Materials

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
-- David Ricardo

#Tools #Materials

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
-- David Strathairn

#Roles #Legends #Materials

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.
-- Davy Jones

#Order #Shows #Materials

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
-- Denzel Washington

#Pieces #Reinterpretation #Materials

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.
-- Don Johnson

#Inspiring #Matter #Materials

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am
-- Donnie Wahlberg

#Actors #Materials #Willing

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.
-- Drew Endy

#Scope #Materials

I am the original Material Girl.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Girl #Materials

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.
-- Ed Harris

#Film #Planets #Materials

The materials shape your idea.
-- Erik Spiekermann

#Ideas #Shapes #Materials

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.
-- F. Murray Abraham

#Interesting #Wonderful #Materials

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
-- Francine Prose

#Raw Materials #Literature #Materials

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
-- Francis Crick

#Copying #Genetics #Materials

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Artist #Should #Materials

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.
-- Graham Sutherland

#Eye #Painting #Materials

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks

#Art #World #Materials

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.
-- Harold Laski

#Class #Mind #Materials

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Raw Materials #Materials

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Men #Materials #Manhood

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.
-- Henry Ford

#Waste #Wasting Time #Materials

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
-- Hervey Allen

#Legends #Facts #Materials

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.
-- Hod Lipson

#Powder #Print #Materials

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
-- Ian Mcewan

#Torn #Materials #Persons

The body is solid material wrapped around the breath
-- Ida Rolf

#Body #Materials

I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
-- Isabel Allende

#Saint #Made #Materials

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
-- J. D. Salinger

#Choices #Poet #Materials

In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.
-- J. L. Austin

#Materials

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer

#Heroic #Materials

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
-- J. T. Walsh

#Metaphor #Materials

I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.
-- Jackee Harry

#Writing #Materials

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.
-- James D. Houston

#Sometimes #Materials

Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.
-- Jay Sankey

#Years #Materials

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
-- Jean Froissart

#Past #Noble #Materials

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
-- Jerry Garcia

#Use #Lifetime #Materials

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.
-- Joan Jett

#Lying #Materials #Position

The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system,
-- Joel Fuhrman

#Raw Materials #Immune System #Materials

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
-- John Chamberlain

#Materials

If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.
-- John F. Carlson

#Memories #Impression #Materials

Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.
-- John French Sloan

#Paint #Materials #Worth It

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
-- John Updike

#Inspiration #Literature #Materials

There's no shortage of material in life.
-- Jonathan Ames

#Shortage #Materials

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.
-- Joseph Addison

#Authorship #Materials

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.
-- Joseph Story

#Wisdom #Human Experience #Materials

I don't like to attach myself to material things.
-- Jourdan Dunn

#Materials #Material Things

The true is not material reality only.
-- Jules Breton

#Reality #Materials

I work with things left over from other things.
-- Julian Schnabel

#Materials

As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.
-- Karl Marx

#Individual #Produce #Materials

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.
-- Kelly Gallagher

#Curiosity #Want #Materials

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.
-- Kevin Nealon

#Special #Materials

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
-- Lawrence Durrell

#Artist #Raw Materials #Materials

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.
-- Lee Friedlander

#Staring #Materials #Generous

I don't think I'm going to be priest material.
-- Lionel Richie

#Thinking #Priests #Materials

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
-- Lionel Trilling

#Reality #Metaphysical #Materials

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Band #Wanted #Materials

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#Design #Understood #Materials

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.
-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#Use #Remember #Materials

Each material is only what we make it.
-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#Materials

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Voice #Filmmaker #Materials

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.
-- Marc Newson

#Technology #Process #Materials

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?
-- Mark Addy

#Nice #Superficial #Materials

The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.
-- Masaoka Shiki

#Materials

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
-- Matt LeBlanc

#Materials

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
-- Michael Behe

#Simple #Simple Life #Materials

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
-- Michael Cunningham

#Hands #Raw Materials #Materials

Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.
-- Michael Heizer

#Earth #Source #Materials

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Stuff #Materials

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov

#Trying #Materials

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Who I Am #Artistic #Materials

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.
-- Morgan Freeman

#Comedy #Easy #Materials

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
-- Natasha Richardson

#Comedy #Materials

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
-- Niels Bohr

#Materials #Interaction #Particles

I always viewed life as material for a movie.
-- Noah Baumbach

#Materials

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
-- Novalis

#Events #Materials

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.
-- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

#Spiritual #Tree #Materials