Elements famous quotes

I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
-- Aaron Baddeley

#Comfort #Elements #Firsts

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#Directors #Needs #Elements

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#Creativity #Heritage #Elements

The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.
-- Adam Braun

#Powerful #Elements #Done

There was a little element of feeling like a cow.
-- Adam Gilchrist

#Feelings #Elements #Littles

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
-- Adam Lambert

#Elements #Sound #Fans

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
-- Ahmet Necdet Sezer

#Police #Elements #Demand

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Successful #Would Be #Elements

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
-- Alain Robert

#Rocks #Feelings #Elements

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

#Risk #Banking #Elements

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
-- Alan Thicke

#Darkness #Elements #Littles

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
-- Albert Camus

#Elements #Unreality #Misfortunes

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
-- Albert Camus

#Lying #Divorce #Elements

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.
-- Albert Einstein

#Thinking #Elements

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.
-- Alec-Tweedie

#Elements #Peas #Uncouth

One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Doubt #Elements #Next

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
-- Alejandro Amenabar

#Elements #Pieces #Too Much

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.
-- Alex Colville

#Thinking #Two #Elements

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
-- Alex Winter

#Movie #Elements #Aliens

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
-- Alexander Calder

#Long #Sculpture #Elements

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.
-- Alexander Nehamas

#Beautiful #Long #Elements

The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Views #Independence #Elements

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Beauty #Monsters #Elements

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Mean #Doe #Elements

Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.
-- Alfred Rosenberg

#Germany #Elements #Reconstruction

The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.
-- Amin Maalouf

#Unique #Identity #Elements

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.
-- Amos Lee

#Intellectual #Matter #Elements

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
-- Anais Nin

#Artist #Choices #Elements

The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#Gone #Elements #Matter

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
-- Andre Kertesz

#Eye #Elements #Angle

The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.
-- Andrew Greeley

#Creativity #Creative #Elements

We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.
-- Andrew Keen

#People #Choices #Elements

See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.
-- Andrew Marvell

#Self #Rose #Elements

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Artist #Elements #Splits

The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.
-- Andy Serkis

#Space #Romance #Elements

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Falling In Love #Character #Elements

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Interesting #Quality #Elements

People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.
-- Anne-Marie Duff

#People #Needs #Elements

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.
-- Annie Besant

#Elements #Matter #Spirit

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Children #Divorce #Elements

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.
-- Anthony Davis

#Meaningful #Important #Elements

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.
-- Antoine Lavoisier

#Nomenclature #Degrees #Elements

The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifer's.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#Doubt #Would Be #Elements

A person who is in the elements of his own is often thrown to a situation to be shown all alone; and people who aren’t may be in a position seen by all, but they are often unknown to be utterly lone.
-- Anuj

#People #Elements #May

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.
-- Apolo Ohno

#Ice #Elements

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
-- Archie Shepp

#Strong #Rap #Elements

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
-- Archie Shepp

#Important #Elements #Response

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
-- Aristotle

#Soul #Principles #Elements

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.
-- Arjun Rampal

#Important #Trying #Elements

There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.
-- Armin Hofmann

#Emotional #Discipline #Elements

The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live calls for a new and fresh approach to lettering in the part of the designer. In these logotypes the combination of letters can be more or less obvious; but only deliberately contrived encounters of elements and confrontations of values can lead beyond the letters to new forms of expression.
-- Armin Hofmann

#Expression #Encounters #Elements

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership
-- Aron Nimzowitsch

#Elements #Half #Thorough

The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
-- Arthur Darvill

#Theatre #Elements #London

I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.
-- Arthur Fogel

#Artist #Elements #Behind The Scenes

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.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Important #Elements #May

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
-- Arto Lindsay

#People #Asian #Elements

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.
-- Audrey Niffenegger

#Moving #Resistance #Elements

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
-- Auguste Comte

#Women #Humanity #Elements

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion
-- B. R. Ambedkar

#Buddhism #Elements #Study

Relationships are the key element to Press & PR
-- Ben Parr

#Keys #Elements

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.
-- Ben Shahn

#Elements #World #Dull

I believe absence is a great element of charm.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Believe #Elements #Absence

In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Years #Water #Elements

It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves...
-- Bertrand Russell

#Real #Important #Elements

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
-- Beth Orton

#Elements #Wanted #Humans

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
-- Bill Brandt

#Giving #Atmosphere #Elements

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
-- Bill Laswell

#Sound #Elements #Texture

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.
-- Bill Maher

#Three #Elements #Recognition

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
-- Bill Toomey

#Keys #Elements #Honest

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.
-- Billy Gibbons

#Band #Elements #Good Things

Reverence, human of the Earth, is the fundamental element of all existence, so it is therefore also the fundamental element of love itself, which is built on this all-embracing reverence. And since this is so in truth, it is also an impossible thing that love, once awakened and built up in truthfulness, can ever weaken again and become cold, or could transform into hate or be annihilated.
-- Billy Meier

#Hate #Fundamentals #Elements

The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex
-- Bobby Darin

#Sex #Important #Elements

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
-- Boris Sidis

#Elements #Evolution #Individual

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
-- Boris Vian

#White #Black #Elements

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
-- Brent Scowcroft

#Islam #Elements #Dangerous

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
-- Brett Ratner

#Trying #Comfort #Elements

Truthfulness is the main element of character.
-- Brian Tracy

#Character #Elements #Truthfulness

I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.
-- Brian Viglione

#Mean #Elements #Pressure

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people.
-- Brion James

#People #Together #Elements

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
-- Bruce Barton

#Essentials #Elements #Belief

There is a large element of me in every role I do.
-- Bruce Campbell

#Roles #Elements

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.
-- Bruce Willis

#Art #Elements #Sometimes

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
-- Bruno Mars

#Artist #Elements #Mystery

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.
-- Bryan Brown

#Revenge #Elements #Half

There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Numbers #Marketing #Elements

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Joy #Elements #Praise

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Elements #Redemption #World

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
-- Caio Fonseca

#Magic #Elements #Return

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.
-- Carl Rogers

#Elements

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
-- Carl Sagan

#Technology #Civilization #Elements

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.
-- Carl Sagan

#Risk #Inquiry #Elements

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.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#War #Elements #Definitions

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
-- Carlisle Floyd

#Personality #Elements #Outsiders

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Elements #Firsts #Investment

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.
-- Carre Otis

#Yoga #Elements #Movement

Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask how the democratic citizen could 'participate' substantively in imperial politics; hence it is not surprising that the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates. No major politician or party has so much as publicly remarked on the existence of an American empire.
-- Chalmers Johnson

#Party #Citizens #Elements

All of my films I've made have had an element of physicality and action but I really enjoy the drama of it because it's where I feel I'm really doing something.
-- Channing Tatum

#Drama #Elements #Action

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman

#Elements #Influence #Reason

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Art #Elements #Half

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Doe #Different #Elements