Elements Quotes

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

Sanctions are a strong and agreed element of the West's response to Russia's aggression. It is puzzling to me that there is so much skepticism about the sanctions. I don't understand it.

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

I want to be careful to not stray too far away from what Batman is to me, but adding that element takes you in some directions that haven't been explored quite as much with the character.

Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well.

The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy.

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

There's an element of trust that you don't find with people nowadays.

There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

As a model, you're such a gypsy, so that 'home' element is kind of taken from you.

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.

It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.

There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.

The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.

Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements, but awarenesses that have come together in a ring of power.

I've been working with music videos and commercials, they are naturally very music driven and visual driven. So that feels like my natural element to be working with that.

The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will remain a lifelong challenge.

If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.

She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain; a racer should embrace the rain.

The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources.

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.