Material Quotes

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
John Oates

Good, Getting, Radio

My material life is simple.
Gustavo Dudamel

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.
Billy Sherwood

Said, Everyone, Areas

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
Alfred Marshall

Time, Future, Rights

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
Sidney Altman

Hope, Enjoy, Individual

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Lionel Trilling

Power, Pain, Artist

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
Boris Spassky

Important, Sacrifice, Often

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.
Phillip E. Johnson

Nature, God, History

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.
Robert Evans

Good, Person, Place

All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.
Douglas Wood

Until, Line, Fine

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Naomi Wolf

Women, Western, Ideals

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.
Josiah Royce

Home, Lonely, Heart

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
Mark Strand

Poetry, Culture, Written

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
James Payn

Men, Writing, Find

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Philip Schaff

Gratitude, Nothing, Himself

As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.
Jay Roach

Parents, Long, Keep

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
Ben Shahn

Hard, Pretty, Influence

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
Barbara Hepworth

Whole, Sensitive, Perhaps

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

Coming, Destroy, Haunt

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.
Donna Leon

Music, Real, Passion

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.
Chris Noth

Politics, Great, Another

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

Made, Process, Clear

We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.
Ann Macbeth

Great, Thought, America

The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
Ann Macbeth

Impossible, State, Drama

They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.
Ann Macbeth

Time, Here, Call

The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
Hjalmar Schacht

Greatest, Through, Place

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Hjalmar Schacht

Peace, Through, Made

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.
Hjalmar Schacht

Peace, War, Moral

I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
Dan Auerbach

Love, Talking, Open

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
Laurence Housman

Politics, Great, Social

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