Quotes about Material Things
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L. P. HartleyI'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord ActonSitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
Rebecca H. DavisObviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.
Paul MuldoonI sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made.
Robbie ColtraneI learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
Twyla TharpSo, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
Sarah ZettelSo, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.
Danny DeVitoGetting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.
Shelby FooteThrough him I began to look at broader things, not denying race, but recognizing that culture was the issue, not race.
Stanley CrouchNow the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
Dalton TrumboWe put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.
Nina BlackwoodI became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
John MiliusI've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.
Anna FrielPeople do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?
Mary HartI never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
Karl LagerfeldI have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too.
John MasefieldThe reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
Doug LarsonI'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
Jerry GarciaI will say this about being an optimist-- even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better.
Frank Hughes
