Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Mantello

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

Graham Nelson

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Nicholas Negroponte

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

Mitchell Hurwitz

There are elements of that, where you'll see a scene again and you'll recognize it, but I wouldn't say it's got one conceit like that, at all. It definitely has those jokes, but it would be wrong to say this is a show where, every time you see it, you see a new angle.

Nicholas D. Kristof

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror

Milton Friedman

The stock market crashed in October 1929. But that was not the cause of what caused the Great Depression. It was, in my opinion, a very minor element of it. What happened was that from 1929 to 1933 you had a major contraction which, in my opinion, was caused primarily by the failure of the Federal Reserve System, to follow the course of action for which it was set up. It was set up to prevent exactly what happened from 1929 to 1933. But instead of preventing it, they facilitated it.

Kate Braverman

The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.

Kim Gordon

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

Mark Frost

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Mary McCarthy

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit

Karl Marx

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Gregory Maguire

The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

Michael Howard

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

M. Ward

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

Lucretius

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Lucretius

Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.

Mary J. Blige

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

Ernst Mach

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

Kevin Weisman

I like the first-person games, but I like the two-person element in terms of playing basketball games with my friends. That's a good time; we have tournaments and things.

Margaret Atwood

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...

George C. Marshall

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If we will concentrate on the best, that element will grow until it sparkles.

Herman Melville

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Orwell

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

Fernando Pessoa

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

Felix Klein

Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.

He really blossomed when he went to the elementary school. He just always loved young kids.

Bill Belichick

Graham runs well, too. He can get down there. I think overall when those guys are out there, we have an element of the vertical passing game from the tight ends.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Heather Donahue

I did a lot of stuff in elementary school, the musicals and stuff, and started training at the Lawrence Street Theater School in Philadelphia.