Materials Quotes

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Raw Materials, Paper

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

  John Engler

  Building Things, Raw Materials, Transforming

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Moral Growth, Comfort

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Animal, Energy, Way

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• 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.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Dance, Men

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• The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

  Arthur Henderson

  Peace, Powerful, Intellectual

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

  Charles Kettering

  Wisdom, Science, Discovery

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• Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Rooms, Obstacles

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

  Imelda Marcos

  Girl, Daughter, Fathers Day

  TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.

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

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Color, Said

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

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Intelligent

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

  Robert Quillen

  Science, Space, Wish

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• 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.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Slave Labor, Land, Raw Materials

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

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Planning, Management, Projects

  Yoshio Taniguchi (1996). “The Japan Architect”

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• 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.

  Mike Thompson

  Records, Painting, Problem

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• In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Manhood

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Moon, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.167, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• 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.

  Edward Thorndike

  Education, Character, Mean

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

  Daniel Webster

  Science, Sea, Earth Day

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.451, Beard Books

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• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Real, History, Imagination

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Courage, Organization, Simplicity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• 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.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments”, Fine Communications

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• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

  Ovid

  Quality, Workmanship, Quality In Business

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• 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.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Oil, Raw Materials, Use

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• 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.

  Christopher Dawson

  Church, Principles, Divine

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