Famous Quotes & Sayings

Park Chan-wook

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

Peter Lindbergh

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

Pankaj Mishra

As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.

This venue has become an important element to their long recovery. This environment has provided mental and emotional healing we can't see or put a price tag on.

Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised,

We've had a surprising number of elementary school students absent.

I've seen some kids as young as second or third grade use planners ... the very elementary planners. Letting kids see that a planner can help them get their projects done and organize their time at home can be very helpful.

I see that as a huge issue for all of us with high-functioning kids in elementary school.

Is it (illegal) because there are some elements of this that may reflect poorly on John Kerry?

I've been here K through 12, and we've all been playing together since elementary school. (Receiver) Mark Dillman moved here before freshman year, but other than him it's been us all the way.

David Ayer

I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.

Bob Wise

There will be set modifications and different graphic elements from what we do.

Tanith Belbin

We felt we improved on our performance at nationals. This is an invaluable experience for us to sees how our elements will be (scored).

Ariel Sharon

The situation is not simple, ... You have to see the whole picture. That responsibility is on my shoulders. I want to tell you restraint is an element of strength.

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

Pope Benedict XVI

Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour.

Thomas Nagel

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical--that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental....

Tupac Shakur

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

Viktor Korchnoi

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Vittorio Alfieri

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

William H. Gass

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

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.

Jeffrey Gitomer

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

Christopher Hitchens

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

Tom Mann

He's lost an element of trust and now it looks as if he did something, hid it from the American people and it potentially violates the law.

He said that the majority of my constituents do not support gay marriage, and he hoped that I would not succumb to the more extreme elements who were supporting the bill,

Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.

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.