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.