Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lionel Trilling

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

If I don't feel like doing it, I will go with someone else. I'm reading material and there are some people I'd like to work with. I will see what they prepare and what I'm passionate about.

I remember the 1950s. It seemed as if prosperity was the be all and end all. The idea was that if you had enough material goods, everything would be all right.

I remain unchanged, defiantly unchanged. Let the raw material stay rough and raw.

It was a solid quarter. They are making material progress on their turnaround.

Peter Greenaway

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

John Chamberlain

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

Julian Schnabel

I work with things left over from other things.

John Searle

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

Patrick J. Adams

I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working.

Mary Baker Eddy

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

Nicki Minaj

See me in that new thing, bums is gaggin

Nicki Minaj

Whiz Galliano whip whip the Armani In the drip drip lick lick like a lolly

Nicholas D. Kristof

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

J. L. Austin

In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.

Gus Sant

There's always been a suspicion that he didn't write his material because he didn't go out of the house. So since nobody ever met him, they would say that.

Noah Baumbach

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

Mitch Albom

We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

Philip Roth

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

Matt LeBlanc

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

Lena Headey

I miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, 'Do you want to get a pint?'

Marat Safin

I'm not a materialistic person.

James Russell Lowell

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

Libba Bray

She's no beauty, mate

Jacque Fresco

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society...

Henry Rollins

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

Helen Fisher

Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.

Kevin Sullivan

These processes take time, but at this point we don't see any material obstacles that would prevent the trust from occurring.

All I am saying is that the availability of fissile material has been curtailed.

Swami Vivekananda

We must get out of materialism.

William Faulkner

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

Zac Posen

I am totally unattached to material items.

Vladimir Lenin

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.