Material Quotes

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.

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

Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

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

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

There's no shortage of material in life.

It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

I could see us doing solo material in the future.

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

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

Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.

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

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

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

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

I'm really not good blackmail material.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

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

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

We're not quite mainstage material. We're more like outhouse material!

My material life is simple.

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

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

I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.

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.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

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

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.