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Material things don't matter. -- John Catsimatidis
Transform the Material.(Chuang Tzu) -- Sung Yee Poon
I am the original Material Girl. -- Eartha Kitt
Material things aren't important to me. -- Troy Polamalu
Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella -- Nicki Minaj
Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace. -- Dalai Lama
Material things aside, we need not advice but approval. -- Coco Chanel
Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction. -- Thomas Jefferson
I was lucky enough to meet the Material Girl twice. -- Eric West
Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation. -- Sunday Adelaja
Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting. -- Elizabeth George
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance. -- Alex Haley
Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie. -- Lukas Haas
Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination. -- Stella Mowen
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. -- Philip Wylie
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world. -- Sri Aurobindo
Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
You begin with the possibilities of the material. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. -- John Updike
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. -- Swami Vivekananda
It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they? -- Mark Addy
Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go. -- Romeo Miller
If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night. -- Kathy Griffin
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. -- Jessamyn West
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. -- Claude M. Bristol
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. -- Edward Albee
I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed. -- Will Ferrell
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. -- Billy Graham
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. -- Elsa Schiaparelli
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. -- E. M. Forster
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. -- Barbara de Angelis
Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars. -- Eduardo Galeano
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. -- Carl Jung
I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness. -- Michael Hirst
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. -- David Rockefeller
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. -- George Saunders
The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. -- Gregor Mendel
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship. -- Jennifer Lopez
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. -- Leslie Cockburn
When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her; she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them. -- Tom Ford
Class is material consumed. -- John Trudell
The material dictates the approach. -- Steve Erickson
My material life is simple. -- Gustavo Dudamel
I prefer the material woman. -- Werner Herzog
Each material has its own message. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Where the material ends, art begins. -- Etienne Hajdu
I'm really not good blackmail material. -- Chris Colfer
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. -- Virginia Woolf
Love is more important than material possessions. -- Thomas F. Wilson
Hope is the raw material of losers. -- Fernando Flores
Marriages are best made of dissimilar material. -- Theodore Parker
I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now. -- Anthony Kiedis
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material. -- Victor Hugo
Leaking of classified material is a concern. -- Robert Mueller
I do like directing other people's material. -- Brian De Palma
Every soil does not produce every material. -- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
Music is not material. Music is Spiritual. -- Sun Ra
I am totally unattached to material items. -- Zac Posen
There's no shortage of material in life. -- Jonathan Ames
Attention is the material I work with. -- Tino Sehgal
The true is not material reality only. -- Jules Breton
Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence. -- F. F. Bruce
I like going after good material, well-written material. -- Sam Underwood
Time is the explicable raw material of everything. -- Arnold Bennett
To measure success with material things is failure! -- Tony Robbins
God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material. -- Matt Chandler
The material world may be nothing but illusion... -- Anodea Judith
Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress. -- Clement Attlee
I'm currently trying to direct my own material. -- Tom Skerritt
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material. -- Alan Kay
There's more to life than physical and material. -- Ziggy Marley
I never got nervous performing my own material. -- Wiz Khalifa
I am careful with my material and presentation. -- Shelley Berman
The material universe exists only in the mind. -- Jonathan Edwards
Digital data are more fragile than printed material. -- Robert Darnton
Each material is only what we make it. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Limitless material growth is not sustainable or moral. -- Bryant McGill
...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death. -- Richard M. Weaver
Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships. -- Alexis Tsipras
The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself. -- James Russell Lowell
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Every master knows that the material teaches the artist. -- Ilya Ehrenburg
Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material. -- Garrison Keillor
Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless. -- Bob Hope
The mental pattern must always precede the material form. -- William Walker Atkinson
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. -- Stephen Ambrose
Data are becoming the new raw material of business. -- Craig Mundie
I always viewed life as material for a movie. -- Noah Baumbach
I don't like to attach myself to material things. -- Jourdan Dunn
The body is solid material wrapped around the breath -- Ida Rolf
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I don't think I'm going to be priest material. -- Lionel Richie
Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material. -- Duncan Roy
Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material. -- Philip Roth
Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed. -- David Mamet
A lot of my material was based on my family. -- Cristela Alonzo
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. -- Richard Flanagan
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material. -- Dorothy Richardson
Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world. -- Deepak Chopra
For in music there is no material to be deducted. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff. -- Kathy Valentine
I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate. -- V. S. Naipaul
Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you. -- James D. Houston
Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth. -- Max Anders
A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances. -- Ezra Taft Benson
You can't be funny if you don't have good material. -- Matt LeBlanc
The Absolute is the material of both God and man. -- Swami Vivekananda
The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it. -- Ruth Buzzi
Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material. -- Emmanuelle Chriqui
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. -- Joseph Joubert
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. -- Karl Marx
In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life -- Philip Johnson
Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material. -- Zanele Muholi
Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason. -- Immanuel Kant
Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I can always create new material. That's something I can control. -- Godfrey

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