Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Zinner

I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

A handful of anti-China elements within the United States are going all out to interfere with and obstruct the normal development of China-U.S. relations,

You've got the image, text, sound effects. ... You put the elements together and they say something new. That's a very emblematic effect.

All I can say is that I'm leaving on a very positive note, in a much better shape than when I got here in 1998. All the elements are in place, with the new products, and I wish them well. This happens and you can't always explain things, but it's been a very positive association.

Peter Drucker

The critical factor of a problem is the element that has to be changed before anything else can be changed.

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.

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

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,

Robert Ford

There weren't any dummies in there. There weren't elements to test her, like someone known not to be near the party or involved.

There were a lot of elements to this. It wasn't just recent results. I've been contemplating looking at this situation real seriously for the last three, four months.

Sallust

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?

Piers Anthony

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Marcus Aurelius

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

Marcello Mastroianni

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Thorstein Veblen

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Serj Tankian

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Samuel Alexander

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

T. Harv Eker

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

Sylvester Stallone

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

Susan Sontag

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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