Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

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 wrong group...

In a world where things are moving so fast, don’t get lost in the midst of it all. Figure out what’s more important to you and proceed with confidence. I know it gets a bit...

It’s nice to have material things but they’re very superficial aren’t they?

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

External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped – it eclipses internal shine.

I do like directing other people’s material.

There’s no shortage of material in life.

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next...

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

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

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a highbrow, at another anathematizes him for blasphemously undermining his religion;...

As an artist, I can’t be responsible for how people interpret material.

When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.

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...

I’ve gotten to a point where I wouldn’t direct someone else’s material. It would only be something totally original.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you’ve got to have a gut understanding of your material.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

Learning is crucial if you want to remain special and material

It’s the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

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.

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 it is...

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique… completely separate entities.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

It takes time, or does time take it?

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

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

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

When I was very young, I didn’t really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples’ jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and people like that. And then, for every comic, you develop...

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first...

Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke’s law to the very bone. It explains:When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to its original position. But when it’s over stretched beyond its limit point, it loses...

You need to find the size of performance that’s appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects – inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as...

A lot of my material was based on my family.

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don’t give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I’m going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long...

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

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

It’s the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

Artha – attainment of wealth, material prosperity,Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;- 5 –

I don’t sit on material like a sofa. I also don’t sit on material like a sofa. I’m a stand on the couch kind of writer.