#material

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show. ↗

— Davy Jones

#get #i #material #order #show

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

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

— Cathy Guisewite

#every #every time #get #i #life

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#classified #classify #decisions #documents #doubled

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. ↗

— J. T. Walsh

#material #materialists #metaphors #our #such

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#things #beauty

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#constraints #controlled #ideals #material #much

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

You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it. ↗

— John Lanchester

#life #material-possessions #stuff #life