#material

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Lord Henry Wotton. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#capitalism #material #money #possessions #priorities

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#directly #fluctuate #labour #materials #prices

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? ↗

— Billy Joel

#could #good #how #i #material

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#around #color #effect #feel #how

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#chance #had #homicide #i #material

I do like directing other people's material. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#i #i do #like #material #other

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#every #every time #get #i #life

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#edgy #i #i am #kinda #lot

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) ↗

— Patti Smith

#materialism #musicians #pure-awesome #technology #beauty

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#materialism #business