Materialising Quotes & Sayings

If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else. — Peter Diamandis

We'll be colored when the day's done, no matter how the cut comes or goes. — James McBride

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status — Jonathon Porritt

It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette was crucial, so his nose and lips were crucial as well. We had to build it out a bit to get the silhouette. But, with my nose being so small within the proportion of my face, the first nose was too big. I felt like a nose on parade. — Toby Jones

In India, because of the huge investments materialising in industry and infrastructure projects, the demand for steel has grown much faster than anticipated. — Jitin Prasada

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out. — Satchel Paige

The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry. — Muhammad

If God brings you to it ... He will see you through it. — Timothy Pina

In some important aspects the Nazi genocide was not unique. In numbers killed, Hitler was surpassed by Stalin and by Mao. In proportion of the population killed, he was surpassed by Pol Pot. But, in other ways, there was a unique moral horror to what the Nazis did. There was an intensity of positive hatred in those who planned the genocide, — Jonathan Glover

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature. — Oscar Wilde

Loss of mental function, taste for Frank Sinatra music, and similar degenerative effects. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility. — Barry Ritholtz

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song. — Kate Bush

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability. — Martin Amis

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you. — Lloyd Alexander

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising. — John Hurt

In the absence of either a widely accepted theory of language learning or a solid empirical base for classroom practice, teachers and learners have always been, and will always be, vulnerable to drastic pendulum swings of fashion, the coming and going of various unconventional and unlamented "Wonder Methods" being an obvious recent example. The sad truth is that after at least 2,000 years, most language teaching takes place on a wing and a prayer - sometimes successfully, but often a relative failure. — Michael H. Long

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid. — Tom Wopat

But in vain I set out to visit the city: forced to remain motionless and always the same, in order to be more easily remembered, Zora has languished, disintegrated, disappeared. The earth has forgotten her. — Italo Calvino