Quotes About Materials

Take the time to educate yourself, whether you're house hunting, deciding on materials or looking for a lender. When homeowners jump into something blind, that's always when they make mistakes.

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts?

I love winter clothes. For me, it is all about choosing great materials and getting the right cut for your body - and then styling it right. For example, I love an oversized manly jacket, but I'll team it with some girly heels.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.

Families are like pieces of art, they can be made from many materials. Sometimes they are from birth, sometimes they are melded, sometimes they are merely time and circumstance mixing together, like eggs being scrambled in a Michigan kitchen.

Having a method without materials to which it can be applied is as useless as having the materials with no method to apply to them.

Renewables are, in fact, much more reliable than power based on extraction, since those energy models require continuous new inputs to avoid a crash, whereas once the initial investment has been made in renewable energy infrastructure, nature provides the raw materials for free.

Zia didn't trust materials. Or rather, he trusted them to fail. Superconductors, carbon composite, silicon, the human body. Problem was, you never knew just how or when...

I had a smell in my nose that just wouldn't go away, and I hated it. It was coating my lungs inside, I thought, and I'd spend the rest of my life breathing it in and breathing it out. The odor was composed of burning building materials, scorched bodies, and disintegrating vampires. It was the smell of hatred.

I bargain-shop all the time, but then I started learning about how those products are made and about how if you spend a little bit more money on ethical clothing that are using recycled materials - like, my favorite dresses are by Christy Dawn... the carbon footprint that they're leaving is so minimal, and it's really worth the extra money.

Let man but accumulate his materials of destruction and the devil within him will soon be unable to resist putting them to their fated use.

Goldratt taught us that in most plants, there are a very small number of resources, whether it's men, machines, or materials, that dictates the output of the entire system. We call this the constraint—or bottleneck. Either

If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot, the ride that Paul Revere never finished, the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved.

The holy grail would be to turn a knob, and out comes the nanotube of the right diameter and chirality.

The beauty of the Stir It Up lies in its ecological balance. We're bringing high quality, earth-friendly materials together with innovative design. The result is powerful sound and a stylish look for the new turntable.

I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King."

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.