Material Quotes - page 11

Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath. (J.R. Ward)
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. View quote
Jennifer Egan
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. View quote
George Saunders
We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best. View quote
Joseph Farrell
Abundance is the natural state of the universe--of this there can be no doubt. Just as the number of stars in the heavens or drops of water in the ocean is beyond counting, so are the spiritual and material blessings that have been prepared for us. View quote
Douglas Bloch
There was something disruptive about Christmas and not only in the merely material way. The original Christmas had proved exceedingly disrupting to the entire world and the tremors of the original event vibrated through every life year by year. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions. (Alan Bradley)
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about. View quote
Linwood Barclay
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. View quote
Denis Waitley
As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors. View quote
Atom Egoyan
I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out. View quote
Will Eisner
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. View quote
Charles Alexander Eastman
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes. View quote
Mose Allison
Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience. View quote
Burt Ward
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. View quote
Billy Graham
Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power. (Patrick Geddes)
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? View quote
Ellen Glasgow
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. View quote
Bede Griffiths
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival. View quote
Gerard O'Neill
Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature. View quote
John Naisbitt