Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Bannister

The mile has all the elements of drama.

The issue is the tactics of how we express the elements of the document.

The issue is how we express the elements in the text.

I'm not saying that Preval himself is involved, but there are elements around him, and in this country, that resort to violence in situations like these. I want to think we can have a peaceful contest, but I fear the worst.

Derek Mears

In my opinion, what 'The Evil Dead' is to horror, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' is to action-fantasy, with these horror elements and a steampunk-y twist.

Ernst Mach

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

Graham Nelson

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit

Karl Marx

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Milton Friedman

The stock market crashed in October 1929. But that was not the cause of what caused the Great Depression. It was, in my opinion, a very minor element of it. What happened was that from 1929 to 1933 you had a major contraction which, in my opinion, was caused primarily by the failure of the Federal Reserve System, to follow the course of action for which it was set up. It was set up to prevent exactly what happened from 1929 to 1933. But instead of preventing it, they facilitated it.

By passing the permanent trade legislation and then by working to get them in the World Trade Organization, it seems to me we put ourselves on the side of the reform elements in China.

William Shakespeare

His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!

I?m not usually very impressed with him as a speechmaker, but I thought his speech had most of the right elements for being a really good presidential speech.

It's very tightly written. We went over all of the elements of it. It's extremely strong.

They went through a number of elements and a number of different scents, and their performance was very sub-par and unacceptable.

It's hard to put words into what we're feeling right now. . . . For some reason, we had to fight through all our elements in a negative way.

It's hard to point to any single inspiration for 'iZombie' since, in actuality, it's made up from elements inspired by all kinds of different thing all mashed up together.

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.

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

We live in this society where you must constantly be reinventing yourself. The big question is what are you doing next. The only thing they want is composed of these three elements: They want you to do it the exact same way because they want more of it; but they want it to be totally different; and they want it to be better. That's all you have to do. You just have to do something that's exactly the same, totally different, and better.

Lauren Jackson

When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

Piers Anthony

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

Haruki Murakami

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

Hans Selye

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Graydon Carter

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

John Malkovich

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

Julie Mehretu

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

Kanye West

I live and breathe every element in life.

Paul Klee

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.

Mary J. Blige

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

Neville Cardus

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Noam Chomsky

From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.

Joe Mantello

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.