Elements Quotes

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

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

We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

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

The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

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

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The energies represented by the four #‎ elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with #‎ astrology

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.

The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck.