Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Spade

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

fillet out the important elements in a plot.

Sophie Hannah

Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.

Abigail Washburn

I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.

There are a number of elements involved with hostage-taking,

We can't separate the fact that this was a sport and somebody (was) injured. We have to look at the elements of the law and take the totality of the circumstances.

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.

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.

Ehud Barak

We should have no illusions: There are elements that will try to torpedo the peace process, ... They won't succeed.

There have been clashes between elements of the SSDF and the SPLM.

Claude Monet

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

Jonathan Davis

It's exciting with the new elements there. We knew we wanted to do something different and over the top and not a typical Korn show, so we're doing new things.

Stanley Tucci

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

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.

Herbie Hancock

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.

The big risk are spoilers who want to produce violence to undermine this positive effort. At the moment the parties should do their utmost to stop violence, but they should not let violent elements and spoilers derail the process.

Subtle horror is where you rarely see the blood and gore. The violent people are called splatter-punks, who prefer graphic, unrelenting, violent, fast-paced horror. I prefer horror stories with mysterious elements that are chock-full of suspense.

The unruly elements of this family's story need not be left for the public to analyze,

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.

Christopher Paolini

And what I hoped, and what I still hope, is that within those familiar elements I'm able to provide a unique twist. If there's anything that's truly unique about the series, what I'm most proud of is Eragon's relationship with Saphira.

Esteban is an interesting player. He's a good rebounder and is physical around the basket, and those are elements our team needs. We feel he's a guy that can improve and we look forward to working with him.

Esteban is an interesting player, ... He's a good rebounder, and is physical around the basket, and those are elements our team needs. We feel he's a guy that can improve, and we look forward to working with him.

Mitchell Baker

Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.

Robert Collier

First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus - then the elements needed for its growth.

Our end game is to take out the leadership elements especially. These arrests are a means to that end.

Christopher Hitchens

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.