Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Besant

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.

Danny Strong

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

Daniel Dennett

Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal—the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth—is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.

E. M. Forster

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

David Spade

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

Debbie Harry

In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

The day they tell me I can't hug them (my students), I'll quit. As an elementary teacher, my kids know that when they need a hug, there's one there for them. . . . (But) were I a teacher in a junior high or high school, I would not be hugging the kids.

Dick Bennett

We're all 100 percent for keeping the elementary schools in their communities opposed to making a warehouse for the kids, so to speak.

Michael Chertoff

We are extremely pleased with the response of every element of the federal government (and) all of our federal partners have made to this terrible tragedy,

Charles Eastman

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

Langhorne Slim

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

Jan Garbarek

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Todrick Hall

I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved.

Elie Metchnikoff

There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.

Billy Gibbons

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Barbara Tuchman

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

Desiderius Erasmus

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

What went on in Rampart was a lot more cold-blooded. There was an element of malevolence, of premeditation and planning.

Roger Waters

There are elements that were pure invention on my part.

There are elements of family all through our unit, so if something happens to one person, we all help out,

Hoshyar Zebari

We have presented our visions and our priorities to you. Now it's your turn to look at those elements and those priorities to see where you can help,

Josie Loren

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Tiffani Thiessen

It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.

Denise Levertov

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

Charles Garfield

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

this (the foregoing of bonuses) is the only responsible thing AMR could have done. But the element of trust has been damaged.

When I was in elementary school I always looked up to high school students.

Beth Orton

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

Matthew Pearl

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

We're going to implement an element of random secondary inspections at the checkpoint. But because it's random, we're not going to offer any details.