Quotes about Materials

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. Votes: 4

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. Votes: 4

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. Votes: 4

Materials are very important to me, and always have been. Votes: 3

There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.' Votes: 3

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan. Votes: 3

Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue. Votes: 3

Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that. Votes: 3

I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Votes: 3

Make the workmanship surpass the materials. Votes: 2

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room. Votes: 2

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. Votes: 2

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials Votes: 2

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action. Votes: 2

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed. Votes: 2

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. Votes: 2

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. Votes: 2

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. Votes: 2

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. Votes: 2

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. Votes: 2

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. Votes: 2

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. Votes: 2

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. Votes: 2

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. Votes: 2

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. Votes: 2

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. Votes: 2

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination. Votes: 2

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh. Votes: 2

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. Votes: 2

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. Votes: 2

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. Votes: 2

The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man. Votes: 2

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. Votes: 2

For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men. Votes: 2

Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box. Votes: 2

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission. Votes: 2

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off. Votes: 2

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients. Votes: 2

After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked. Votes: 2

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release. Votes: 2

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. Votes: 2

Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can. Votes: 2

Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time. Votes: 2

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth. Votes: 2

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Votes: 2

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. Votes: 2

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. Votes: 2

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out. Votes: 2

Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty. Votes: 2

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around. Votes: 2

Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals of our society, such as platinum, copper and zinc, are rapidly becoming scarce. The asteroids might offer a replacement supply, providing the materials our descendants will need for a high quality life. Votes: 2

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials. Votes: 2

The materials shape your idea. Votes: 0

I don't compose. I assemble materials. Votes: 0

Art should be born from the materials. Votes: 0

Sell your materials but save your morals. Votes: 0

Painting is so much more than the materials. Votes: 0

The biggest things in life are not materials. Votes: 0

Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working. Votes: 0

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies. Votes: 0

I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials. Votes: 0

Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity. Votes: 0

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases. Votes: 0

I take classified materials very seriously and always have. Votes: 0

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials. Votes: 0

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear. Votes: 0

The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion. Votes: 0

People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die. Votes: 0

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory. Votes: 0

Knowing how to market yourself and your press materials is key. Votes: 0

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice]. Votes: 0

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made. Votes: 0

Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials. Votes: 0

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make. Votes: 0

it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. Votes: 0

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. Votes: 0

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images. Votes: 0

Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials. Votes: 0

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. Votes: 0

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. Votes: 0

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials. Votes: 0

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. Votes: 0

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom. Votes: 0

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. Votes: 0

Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do. Votes: 0

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. Votes: 0

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials. Votes: 0

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials. Votes: 0

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there. Votes: 0

I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized. Votes: 0

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all. Votes: 0

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration. Votes: 0

Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. Votes: 0

The perfumer fakes nature by blending different types of materials to reproduce their scent. Votes: 0

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood Votes: 0

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme. Votes: 0

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials. Votes: 0

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit. Votes: 0

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. Votes: 0

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. Votes: 0

Your strengths are the raw materials that God needs to make your dreams happen. Votes: 0

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. Votes: 0

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way. Votes: 0

The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system, Votes: 0

There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on. Votes: 0

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters Votes: 0

The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system. Votes: 0

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar. Votes: 0

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials. Votes: 0

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin? Votes: 0

I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance. Votes: 0

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK. Votes: 0

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. Votes: 0

Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour. Votes: 0

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will. Votes: 0

If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural. Votes: 0

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. Votes: 0

The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible. Votes: 0

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. Votes: 0

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India. Votes: 0

Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning. Votes: 0

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Votes: 0

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house Votes: 0

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors. Votes: 0

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials. Votes: 0

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. Votes: 0

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference. Votes: 0

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal. Votes: 0

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation. Votes: 0

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials. Votes: 0

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs. Votes: 0

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you. Votes: 0

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. Votes: 0

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine. Votes: 0

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials. Votes: 0

I am constantly looking to push boundaries with materials, bring in new weights, and work in fabrics unexpectedly. Votes: 0

I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work. Votes: 0

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents. Votes: 0

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer. Votes: 0

If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse. Votes: 0

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. Votes: 0

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. Votes: 0

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. Votes: 0

One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S. Votes: 0

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. Votes: 0

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. Votes: 0

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention... Votes: 0

I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer. Votes: 0

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. Votes: 0

Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost. Votes: 0

Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose. Votes: 0

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans. Votes: 0

The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond. Votes: 0

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways. Votes: 0

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate. Votes: 0

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world. Votes: 0

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials. Votes: 0

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials. Votes: 0

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ... Votes: 0

Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause. Votes: 0

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. Votes: 0

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. Votes: 0

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops. Votes: 0

There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials. Votes: 0

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy. Votes: 0

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter. Votes: 0

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted. Votes: 0

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth Votes: 0

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. Votes: 0

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials." Votes: 0

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it. Votes: 0

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. Votes: 0

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials. Votes: 0

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. Votes: 0

I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway'-like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags. Votes: 0

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. Votes: 0

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. Votes: 0

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets. Votes: 0

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials. Votes: 0

Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization. Votes: 0

We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction. Votes: 0

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials. Votes: 0

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street. Votes: 0

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. Votes: 0

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control. Votes: 0

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter. Votes: 0

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. Votes: 0

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint. Votes: 0

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. Votes: 0

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Votes: 0

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction. Votes: 0

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself. Votes: 0

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man? Votes: 0

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another. Votes: 0

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that. Votes: 0

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction Votes: 0

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families"•but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs. Votes: 0

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form. Votes: 0

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. Votes: 0

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed. Votes: 0

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. Votes: 0

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future. Votes: 0

Had a filling done yesterday with no freezing, natural materials, essentials oils, and homeopathic remedies. We absolutely must push for more holistic biological dentistry ... Votes: 0

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed. Votes: 0

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. Votes: 0

How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering. Votes: 0

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life. Votes: 0

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell. Votes: 0

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them. Votes: 0

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art. Votes: 0

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time. Votes: 0

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article. Votes: 0

The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern. Votes: 0

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials. Votes: 0

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used. Votes: 0

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. Votes: 0

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about. Votes: 0

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. Votes: 0

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see. Votes: 0

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. Votes: 0

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from. Votes: 0

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know. Votes: 0

Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture. Votes: 0

I could design an $800 shoe line; it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90. Votes: 0

Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies? Votes: 0

I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90. Votes: 0

I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor. Votes: 0

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all. Votes: 0

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials. Votes: 0

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world. Votes: 0

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds. Votes: 0

Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work. Votes: 0

[We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV. Votes: 0

One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks. Votes: 0

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it? Votes: 0

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time. Votes: 0

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play. Votes: 0

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications. Votes: 0

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials. Votes: 0

We are trying to enable anyone in the world to be their own educational DJ, creating educational materials, sharing them with the world, constantly innovating on them. Votes: 0

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where. Votes: 0

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters. Votes: 0

By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and far beyond campus walls. Votes: 0

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing... Votes: 0

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them. Votes: 0

Toddlers are active explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership. Votes: 0

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. Votes: 0

I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials. Votes: 0

Dr. Webber rolled her eyes, unimpressed with my timing, and probably a little irritated with my lack of materials. I winked, and the slightest smile touched her lips. Votes: 0

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials. Votes: 0

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials? Votes: 0

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable. Votes: 0

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. Votes: 0

A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes. Votes: 0

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers. Votes: 0

I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials Votes: 0

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own. Votes: 0

I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown. Votes: 0

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught. Votes: 0

For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet. Votes: 0

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design. Votes: 0

They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above. Votes: 0

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't. Votes: 0

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive. Votes: 0

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them. Votes: 0

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods. Votes: 0

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. Votes: 0

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience. Votes: 0

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime. Votes: 0

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited. Votes: 0

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I would constantly build and create fantasy worlds. Votes: 0

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational. Votes: 0

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited Votes: 0

While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue. Votes: 0

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it. Votes: 0

Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel. Votes: 0

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings. Votes: 0

On your journey to achievement, you should never be without good positive materials and people who will encourage you, excite you and give you a reason to move forward. Votes: 0

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another. Votes: 0

We believe our suppliers of materials have not been impacted. At this point, our customers have not asked us to do anything differently as a result of the earthquake. Votes: 0

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well. Votes: 0

Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts. Votes: 0

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere. Votes: 0

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature. Votes: 0

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy. Votes: 0

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. Votes: 0

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials. Votes: 0

CNN says it did not share its coverage materials with any candidate, party or campaign and says it was completely uncomfortable with [Donna] Brazile's involvement with the [Hillary] Clinton camp. Votes: 0

I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate. Votes: 0

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. Votes: 0

I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not do before. flexible enough to change. Votes: 0

Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something very unpleasant, very frightening, and looking absolutely real. Votes: 0

The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind. Votes: 0

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them. Votes: 0

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him. Votes: 0

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations. Votes: 0

We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history Votes: 0

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event. Votes: 0

Whether it's dangerous materials being smuggled across the border, terrorists entering on visas or Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers, these are the problems we must now focus on fixing. Votes: 0

When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves. Votes: 0

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do. Votes: 0

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it. Votes: 0

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials. Votes: 0

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself. Votes: 0

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it. Votes: 0

When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size. Votes: 0

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited. Votes: 0

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big. Votes: 0

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mother's clothes, I feel that I have succeeded. Votes: 0

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials. Votes: 0

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings. Votes: 0

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded. Votes: 0

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less! Votes: 0

Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older. Votes: 0

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful! Votes: 0

We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal. Votes: 0

For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable message here: Jesus is not terribly impressed with religious commercialism Votes: 0

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness. Votes: 0

For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes... Votes: 0

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. Votes: 0

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season. Votes: 0

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials. Votes: 0

America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials. Votes: 0

America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials. Votes: 0

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials. Votes: 0

The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping. Votes: 0

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life. Votes: 0

The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression. Votes: 0

Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it. Votes: 0

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials. Votes: 0

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. Votes: 0

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working. Votes: 0

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process. Votes: 0

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane. Votes: 0

I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!' Votes: 0

What makes iPhone 5 so unique is how it feels in your hand. The materials… the remarkable precision. Never before have we built a product with this extraordinarily level of fit and finish. Votes: 0

I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb. Votes: 0

There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship. Votes: 0

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper. Votes: 0

The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off. Votes: 0

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy. Votes: 0

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials. Votes: 0

I guess what this is reflecting is my own search for answers that I can't find. Frank [Moore Cross] and I have examined a lot of archaeological materials in the hope of finding out. Votes: 0

Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy. Votes: 0

I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems. Votes: 0

The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied. Votes: 0

I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me. Votes: 0

Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion. Votes: 0

There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage. Votes: 0

To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity. Votes: 0

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods. Votes: 0

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush. Votes: 0

It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture. Votes: 0

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be... Votes: 0

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on... Votes: 0

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand. Votes: 0

When delivering something like an important letter or other written materials, grasp it firmly in your hand as you go and do not release it once, but hand it over directly to the recipient. Votes: 0

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets. Votes: 0

I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials. Votes: 0

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel. Votes: 0

It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it. Votes: 0

A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes. Votes: 0

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. Votes: 0

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open. Votes: 0

Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way. Votes: 0

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life. Votes: 0

The funny thing about being creative is that, especially high school people, I kept noticing I'd always go to these certain materials. I'd always be picking up trash and picking up paper and using it. Votes: 0

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree. Votes: 0

We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world. Votes: 0

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0