Material Handling Quotes

If you look at the end of a roll of toilet paper, like the brown paper tube, I basically worked in a factory that made humongous ones like that - for concrete or anything you wanted to put in there. I was the guy who chopped those up into smaller pieces, put them in a box, throw it in a pallet, wrap it up, jump in a forklift and put it on a truck.

I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.

By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline. You have to get the right way in. Otherwise the material just lies there, and you can't do anything with it.

When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.

Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.

I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.

No one keeps the container, they always keep the product.

The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

I take classified materials very seriously and always have.

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural.

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.

It was mainly to do with Helen Hunt, to be honest. That's what drew my attention to it. I was interested in the fact that she was going to be directing. I'd never met her but she projects a degree of intelligence and it was convincing t me that she'd be able to handle this sort of material very well.