Elements Quotes

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across and touch other objects in the set up.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.

Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.