Elements Quotes

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

The noblest of the elements is water

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

When I was filming Ouija, there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.

Of course I love leather, and I love stingray. So combining the two and adding those gold elements - I always love a great gold accessory.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.

I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I think is a nifty concept, I'll give it a whirl.

It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.

As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.

Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?

Anything would deserve a sequel if the right elements are there.

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.

Everything is a consequence of Something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist. We only think it exists because we cannot keep up with all processes that happen around us.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.

The script is really always the main attraction, and then there's whether there is an interesting character and great people around you. Those are the key elements that I look for.

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.

Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you’ll find them.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

I love people in elements that they're not used to.

I like to incorporate all different elements into my music.

It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations.

I wouldn't exactly describe 'Detention' as a horror movie. I mean, it does have horror elements in it, but it's got a lot more to it, and it's not a typical horror movie.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself.

David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him].

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

I liked taking the elements of roadside advertising out of context because it removes the imperative and just goes to the essence of it - the pure heart of advertising.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.

For me, the singer is actually the most important element. When I work with someone, it all comes down to whether I like the singer or not.

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.