Materials Quotes - Page 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.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Hands, Umpires, People

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• 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.

  Neal Barnard

  Food, Giving, Fuel

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• The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

  Orson Pratt

  Father, Son, Religion

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”

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• 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.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Challenges, Fascination, Clumsiness

  Helen Frankenthaler, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (1980). “Helen Frankenthaler prints, 1961-1979”, HarperCollins

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• The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

  Gary Lucas

  Baby, Hands, Desire

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• 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.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Real, Experts, Bells

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• The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

  George Saintsbury

  Artist, Giving, Transition

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.209, tredition

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

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Nuclear, Unions, Stealing

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• 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.

  John Hersey

  Children, Fall, Vision

  John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

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• And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.

  Robert Sternberg

  Long, Population, Looks

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

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Made, Ill, Rate

  Natalia Ginzburg (1989). “Family Sayings”, p.98, Arcade Publishing

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• 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

  Hjalmar Schacht

  War, Raw Materials, Use

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• 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?

  Beth Orton

  Glowing, Hands, Generations

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• 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.

  Colleen Atwood

  Team, Apes, Online

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• 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.

  Helmut Jahn

  Woods, Recycling, Natural

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

  Goldwin Smith

  Real, Humanity, Novelists

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Race, Robots

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• 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 it will reduce the cost of rockets.

  Ralph Merkle

  Confidence, Air, Stronger

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• 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.

  Henry Taube

  Science, Understanding, Benefits

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• 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.

  Christopher Bond

  Jobs, America, Battle

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• Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Oxygen, Years

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”

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• If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.

  James Forrestal

  Japan, Raw Materials, Employment

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• We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

  Arthur Blank

  Home, Years, People

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• 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.

  Marc Garneau

  Communication, Space, Ties

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• If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

  James McBride

  Tissues, Kind, Form

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