Quotes About Material

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.

She would have to ride the nightmare in her sleep. Only that would keep it material, or enable her to dematerialize with it.

Il mestiere di chimico (fortificato, nel mio caso, dall'esperienza di Auschwitz) insegna a superare, anzi ad ignorare, certi ribrezzi, che non hanno nulla di necessario né di congenito: la materia è materia, né nobile né vile, infinitamente trasformabile, e non importa affatto quale sia la sua origine prossima.

It was a red Moleskine—made of neither mole nor skin, but nonetheless the preferred journal of my associates who felt the need to journal in non-electronic form.

The Prohibition era had been a great source of material for building an excellent science of alcohol intoxication

I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.

When the material written is very good then half of your work is done by the writer itself. When there's a well-defined character written, then the attempt is to be as honest to the material as possible.

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

Really, I am entirely material driven. If a project appeals to me, I will try to find the right writer and director. And that may be someone I've worked with before, or it may not. It may be a woman, or it may not.

The new universe story is the intercommunion of life itself, of each part with the whole. Everything is in communion in the vast web of the universe. The intense communion within the material world enables life to emerge into being. Living forms are

Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply.

Most Asian texts stipulate the real existence of intangible, invisible energies that download into material representation and affects. The Chinese have long referred to these energies as Ch'i, while the Ch'i disciplines advocate understanding and working with, not against, those superlative energies. Basic

He was wearing a coat made from a thick gray material called Ulster. Ulster is always gray. I'm thinking, sex killers always wear windbreakers.

That one body should act upon another through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else is so great an absurdity that no man suited to do science...can ever fall into it,.....Gravity must be caused by an agent...but whether that agent be material or immaterial I leave to my readers.

Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this Agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the Consideration of my readers.

Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid, material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead...

Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety of commodities produced. And taking our cue from this sector, we measure social progress by the distribution of access to these commodities. Economics has been developed as propaganda for the takeover by large-scale commodity producers.

Scarcity is historical, as historical as gender or sex. The era of scarcity could come to be only on the assumption that 'man' is individual, possessive, and, in the matter of material survival, gender-less - a rapacious neutrum oeconomicum.

An economy made of paper could never be as strong as one of bricks, guns and widgets.