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?

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.