#material

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all. ↗

— Gerald W. Johnson

#demand #heroes #materials #none #out

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#could #develop #ease #even #extent

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room. ↗

— Edwin Land

#materials #problem #room #solved #using

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#conquest #convinced #could #improve #material

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#been #billion #chemical #earth #enable

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

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

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

— Mike Shinoda

#definitely #go #listen #material #older

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