Materials Quotations

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

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

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

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.

My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I've just started using her same materials - a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

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.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

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.

Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us.

In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to a level of maturity that commercial products were possible. With this as a goal, we founded UNLAX Corporation.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.

The infinite variety in the properties of the solid materials we find in the world is really the expression of the infinite variety of the ways in which the atoms and molecules can be tied together, and of the strength of those ties.

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

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.

I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.

Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.

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

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.

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.

Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

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

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

A lot of my material was based on my family.

Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.

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.

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

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

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

It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth's gravity.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

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.

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

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.

The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

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.

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.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

I never got nervous performing my own material.

There's more to life than physical and material.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin materials we do now. But if we're living anything like the average McMansion-ite, SUV-driving suburbanites, there's simply no way that can be powered in a climate-friendly way.

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

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

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins - botulinum and salmonella - and the chemical poison cyanide.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

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.

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

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.

We've added GPS on almost the whole fleet of vehicles in Water, Streets and Sanitation and Transportation. We've increased the amount of inspections we do on crews in the field. And we audit the work completed. That's the best tool we have to ensure quality jobs, validate materials used and make sure the work was completed.

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Where the men are going to get separated from the boys here is: Who can absorb higher energy and raw materials costs, pass those on in their pricing and have them stick as opposed to absorbing it in lower margins.

Until they search each and every remaining house and remove all the fallen materials ... they will not know how many people are there.

While largely unnoticed by investors, global urbanization is going to be one of the most powerful and important trends. The world's resource base confronts unprecedented demand as a new urban world unfolds. Against this backdrop, the secular bull market in energy and basic materials is just beginning.

Whether the recovery from Katrina adds to demand for construction materials depends on the types and speed of rebuilding in damaged areas.

We brought back as much of the old team as we could. They had to be retrained to work with a new WMS and to learn how the WMS interacts with all the materials handling equipment.

We bring to the table expertise in measuring the strength of materials at the smallest of scales.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

With three negative reports in a row, it's ugly. What we are seeing is two things: it is the storms and a pre-existing condition that came with the end of auto discounting. Part suppliers and their raw materials suppliers benefited from auto sales incentives.

We're looking for information that may affect how we patrol the city. How was it executed? What materials were used? Where were the bombs assembled? Obviously if there is any information about New York, that's a priority,

We've tried to emphasize that a little bit in some of our communications materials -- apparently not enough. We have plans to get that message out.

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Whenever teachers don't receive materials they need in a timely manner, it affects how successfully they will be able to implement the new standards,

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

We want to send an Amazon securities employee out to his home to collect whatever materials he has. This is an important issue for us.

I'm really not good blackmail material.

The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.