Top Material Quotes

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatom...

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

Material Definition

(a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

(a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.

(a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.

(a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.

(n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.

(v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.

Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as i...

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so as to create an emotion in the audience. I find too many...

What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the...

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way of thinking, their conception of the world and the quality of their fears...

Learning is crucial if you want to remain special and material

Sell your materials but save your morals.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

The best investments are in things you cannot buy.

The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it.

Everything has a past, a voice, existed at some point, even things as small and seemingly meaningless as a house in a huge suburb. It’s a house like every other house… but at some point a family lived...

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation

Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues.

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.

Time is the material from which life is made

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