#material

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#daily #daily life #ends #higher #life

As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has. ↗

— Jay Roach

#also #always #confident #direction #earning

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material. ↗

— Chris Rock

#comedy #comedy club #material #out #place

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

#am #basically #cease #contribute #convinced

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#devoted #fiction #including #journals #magazines

The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know. ↗

— Sonia Braga

#else #everything #i #know #material

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#material #means #nature #paintings #photography

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#anything #drink #food #i #lush

I think the fans of the old-school Internet shorts were a little bit older just because it was racier material. ↗

— Andy Milonakis

#bit #fans #i #i think #internet