Elements Quotes

Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.

I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from audiences, I don't like for them to think they know what's happening next.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a collection of 'thou shall' and 'thou shalt nots!' All those elements are part of Scripture.

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

I love the surprise element of being a mom.

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

My father combined many of the elements that were feared in the culture, but also he was a warm figure, a figure we needed. We depended on him to give us a little bit of strength and courage.

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.

Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

Id love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered.

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

I really like incorporating elements, and it's also difficult to do in stop motion, which means sometimes I run into problems.

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

I'm a Canadian Jamaican. For me, I carry my Jamaican element into my music in my more recent releases.

I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.