#material

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. ↗

— David Sedaris

#do you know #how #know #laughing #listening

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#america #available #based #buildings #century

There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents. --"Bomar ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#money-not-happiness #beauty

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#influence #material #measure #pretty #visual

I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#feel #fits #going #great #great material

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#definitely #go #listen #material #older

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#again #biggest #biggest lesson #come #families

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#i #material #never #other #people

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#available #back #being #came #could

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#animal #form #indeed #life #material