Material Quotes - page 12

There's more to life than physical and material. (Ziggy Marley)
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying, dissipating universe, that we can help our children avoid by providing them with "explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.”. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or "dematerialized." View quote
Lucy R. Lippard
Leaking of classified material is a concern. View quote
Robert Mueller
My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits. View quote
Peter O'Toole
Every holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know. It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the holy Sacrifice of the Mass. View quote
Padre Pio
The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs. View quote
Dee Dee Ramone
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man. View quote
George Gaylord Simpson
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. View quote
Elsa Schiaparelli
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality. (Tibor R. Machan)
I have very mixed feelings about [Napster]. On one hand, I'm concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!!!!! View quote
Al Yankovic
Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material. View quote
Alan Ladd
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted. View quote
Alex Campbell
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. View quote
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. View quote
Amy Waldman
There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect. View quote
Ann Beattie
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. View quote
Ann Macbeth
I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply. View quote
Ann Veneman
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. View quote
Anne Sullivan Macy
I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material. (Aries Spears)
What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. View quote
Athol Fugard
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. View quote
Adam Sedgwick
When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles. View quote
Babyface
My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for. View quote
Brenda Strong