Elements Quotes

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom.

An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding.

Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.

I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.

Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is.

In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element.

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

Boldness is a crucial element of genius.

In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.