Quotes About Material

MAPP stands for material, audience, performer, and purpose. A

The material must be appropriate to the interests of the audience (or readers), and each must relate to the persona of the performer (or writer). Throughout the book, we'll show you how to create and follow the MAPP to successful humor writing.

the wealth created by the reduction economy was not one of material things but of time.

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon anyways, if you caych my drift.

In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

The greatest gifts are not the material things you receive but the love you give, the friendship you share and the hope you inspire.

Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements

Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last the politician did the ghetto a favor.

Wisconsin schoolchildren collected 283,000 bags of milkweed fluff for use in life jackets during World War II. Traditionally, fibrous kapok had been used for this purpose, but that material became unavailable when the Japanese occupied Indonesia, where the tropical tree was mostly grown.

The atoms that comprise our bodies and that make all visible stars and galaxies, are mere trace-constituents of a universe whose large-scale structure is controlled by some quite different (and invisible) substance. We see, as it were, just the white foam on the wave-crests, not the massive waves themselves. We must envisage our cosmic habitat as a dark place, made mainly of quite unknown material.

Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause.

Resurrection. Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding. (SH 593:9)

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.

A new fear began to grip me, almost as powerful as the fear of what could befall us on the mountain: the fear of running out of reading material.