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.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

I haven’t shut any doors, and I’m really open to anything, so I think it’s just about the material and what is going to get made.

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It’s the door into that magical reading/writing state – the raw material for making the story real.

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of...

It’s often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.

Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.

Our TotalGuide Solution can operate on a wide range of the installed base of legacy set-top boxes without requiring material changes to the underlying network. This enables our solution to be deployed efficiently, primarily through...

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.

Research material can turn up anywhere – in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.

I could see us doing solo material in the future.

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

I really don’t want to go to work every day convincing myself of what I’m saying. I want the material to make me a better actor; then I try to return the favor to the...

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, ‘One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.’ Not...

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes...

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn’t have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.

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?