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It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
— John Steinbeck
The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.
— Robert McKee
With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.
— Carmelo Anthony
I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.
— Michael Hudson
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.
— Daniel Keyes
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
— Geraldine Brooks
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.
— Gerald W. Johnson
The materials shape your idea.
— Erik Spiekermann
We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.
— Twyla Tharp
He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.
— Philip Pullman
For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.
— Rashid Johnson
Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.
— John French Sloan
You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.
— Tony Palermo
Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
— Herbert Hoover
Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
— M. Night Shyamalan
study: The reading of books or examination of other materials to gain knowledge. Page 5.
— Sean Clouden
A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.
— Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
— William Faulkner
Knowing how to market yourself and your press materials is key.
— Wendy Starland
Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.
— Michael Heizer
Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.
— Garrison Keillor
Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.
— Hodding Carter
teachers choose materials, they consider materials' individuality; unusual
— Ann Lewin-Benham
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
— Jean Cocteau
We do not think in words and phrases. We think only in pictures and/or images. Words are the raw materials of thought.
— David J. Schwartz
We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.
— Peter Diamandis
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
— John Berger
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
— Yusuf Hamied
The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.
— David Batchelor
Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
— Flavius Josephus
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
I didn't fail ten thousand times.
I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
materials and combinations which wouldn't work. — Thomas A. Edison
I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
materials and combinations which wouldn't work. — Thomas A. Edison
The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
— Mervyn Levy
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
— Wallace Stegner
Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.
— Manoj Bhargava
A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
— Michael Caine
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
— Mao Zedong
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
— E. O. Wilson
The materials are mostly from living beings - living human beings. They need to be alive to extract the necessary materials.
— Brad McKinniss
I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
— Taylor Wilson
Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.
— David Batchelor
To measure success with material things is failure!
— Tony Robbins
I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.
— Miuccia Prada
Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.
— Meyer Schapiro
I seem to be ready for work, my materials are collected, yet the work doesn't get done! Nothing is done!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.
— John Henrik Clarke
The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
— James Russell Lowell
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.
— George W. Bush
There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention ...
— Joshua Reynolds
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.
— James Boswell
Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.
— Gueorgui Pinkhassov
We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.
— John Grierson
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
— Daniel Webster
I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
— Patricia Millett
An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.
— Shozaburo Watanabe
Gandhi was a David with no material weapon.. not even a slingshot.
— Victoria Moran
I always say, 'If you're planning on seeing our movie, don't look at any more of the materials.'
— Joseph Kosinski
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
— John Locke
I realized that meals, too, are a spiritual service and that meat, bread, and wine are the raw materials from which spirit is formed.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.
— Martha Beck
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.
— Charles Proteus Steinmetz
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
— Lionel Trilling
In a very real way, then, materials are a reflection of who we are, a multi-scale expression of our human need and desires.
— Mark Miodownik
Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.
— Molly Crabapple
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
— Aldo Leopold
Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.
— Theodore Parker
It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.
— Herbert Hoover
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
— Warren G. Bennis
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
— Lee H. Hamilton
Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely.
— Alexander Pope
Your strengths are the raw materials that God needs to make your dreams happen.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
— Terence McKenna
War is a way of shattering to pieces ... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and ... too intelligent.
— George Orwell
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting ... every generation must start again afresh.
— Maurice De Vlaminck
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
— Frank Herbert
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
— Gwendolyn Brooks