Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toni Trucks

Learning all the intricacies, all the nerd elements to 'Twilight' was really fun.

We have lost some elements to the river. We just don't know what the water might do.

Jan Garbarek

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

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,

James Blake

If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.

I felt he handled the elements a little better. He did a nice job and gave us a lift off the bench.

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.

Frank Carlucci

But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them.

Curtis Jackson

I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want, place those elements in the right places.

Albert Ellis

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

Albert Camus

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.

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

Claude Monet

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

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.

I would say that we're still contemporary but we use elements of blended, which has some elements of traditional music.

Shakira

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

There are so many elements now that's why people make so many mistakes.

Richard Evans

I think it's likely that within three to six months we could have all the key elements pulled together in the form of a term sheet, which would be the key financial elements.

It could be vehicles and it could be elements of vehicles.

Tim Jackson

I think you put the combination of those three elements together and you've got a real premiere festival,

Daniel Breaker

I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

I guess I thought of it as an American tragedy, ... It has all the elements -- the success is larger than life, the aspirations are larger than life, and the fall from grace is equally larger than life.

J. G. Ballard

'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

Hill Harper

What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too.

This seizure confirms that foreign elements were given shelter by some tribesmen,

Bjork

In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.

Antony Gormley

The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.