Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
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.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.
I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
We never got much in the way of material things, but if you can be spoiled by good cooking, my mom spoiled me three times a day all my life.
Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard tube.
Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality about them when they write the 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.
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
Since I got an audience before I even had a comic voice, my material that really wasn't worthy of an audience somehow got it, slightly unfairly.
Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.
You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.
See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for awhile, that's fine with me.
A 3D printer needs three elements: a bit of information, some raw material, some energy, and it can produce any object that was not there before.
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
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?
When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.
In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.
When I do solo material I definitely tend to overthink it. I make a lot of rules for myself that are a little bit arbitrary and... it's just painful.
No country anywhere in the world allows material that genuinely puts national security at risk into the public domain, and that includes a courtroom.
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.
A real man doesn't know what cellulite is. Until I was 30 I thought cellulite was a building material used for restoring plasterwork in stately homes.
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.
But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?
One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
You've got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens - that's what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did.
It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.