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Quotes About Materialized

As you gazed into the polished surface of the marble the vague forms of instruments became visible, and as you touched them the instruments materialized instantly under your hands. Looked at from the correct angles the mirrors appeared to reflect all the required data read-outs, though it was far from clear where they were reflected from.
~ Douglas Adams
With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued by a hack playwright--suddenly materialized at the horizon on October 12, 1492.
~ Alan Axelrod, Ph.D.
A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnitude of this value to be measured? By means of the quantity of the value-forming substance, the labour, contained in the article. This quantity is measured by its duration, and the labour-time is itself measured on the particular scale of hours, days etc.
~ Karl Marx
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
~ Paracelsus
A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action
~ Eric Hoffer
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
~ Jean Monnet
Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life
~ Pavel Florensky
Love is a mysticism that wants to be materialized, an impossibility that our dreams always insist must be possible.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'm so sorry," he said, because after Pamela died, he promised himself that if anyone told him the smallest, saddest story, he would answer, I'm so sorry. Meaning, Yes, that happened. You couldn't believe the people who believed that not mentioning sadness was a kind of magic that could stave off the very sadness you didn't mention – as though grief were the opposite of Rumpelstiltskin and materialized only at the sound of its own name.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
We discussed risks that European developments might pose to the United States, but to date those risks had not materialized.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
~ Alvar Aalto
A Teleoghinoora is a materialized idea or thought which after its arising exists almost eternally in the atmosphere of that planet on which it arises.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
An Internet of Things is not a consumer society. It's a materialised network society. It's like a Google or Facebook writ large on the landscape.  Google and Facebook don't have "users" or "customers". Instead, they have participants under machine surveillance, whose activities are algorithmically combined within Big Data silos.
~ Bruce Sterling
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., whose youthful dreams of being a successful Hollywood screenwriter never materialized, is proving to the world that he does indeed have a talent for concocting fictional stories.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
~ Hans Hofmann
I can only assume that fresh demons have materialized out of your troubled karma.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Before the particles that we observe today materialized, all matter in the early universe must have gone through this stage of a quark-gluon soup, or plasma.
~ Henning Genz
The dragon suddenly materialized on the branch again, her scales shifting to a furious red with splatters of black and orange.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not materialised. The world, and himself, remained so far from what they should be: so imperfect.
~ Unknown
We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a "great age" that has not "come off". We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace.
~ Unknown
Tragedy materialized before Ludlow at 2:15 a.m.
~ Dean Koontz
It was my mother's dream that I should work with a legendary actor like Amithabh Bachchan. I am happy that it has materialised now.
~ Sudeep