Material Quotes

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. (Booker T. Washington)
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. View quote
William S. Burroughs
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. View quote
Jean Piaget
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. View quote
Susan Sontag
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. View quote
Gore Vidal
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. View quote
E. M. Forster
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. View quote
Edward Albee
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature. View quote
James Tiptree, Jr
The word of man is the most durable of all material. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. (Lewis Mumford)
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. View quote
Earle Brown
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
American institutionalists were not theoretical but anti-theoretical.... Without a theory they had nothing to pass on except a mass of descriptive material waiting for a theory, or a fire. View quote
Ronald Coase
I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with. (William Saroyan)
There seemed to be nothing to see no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. View quote
Willa Cather
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. View quote
Jean Froissart
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt