Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Emma Goldman

Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

Maggie Smith

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

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.

Henry Reed

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

Hilaire Belloc

There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.

John Malkovich

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

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.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

Liu Xiaobo

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time itself is an element.

Andy Phillips

The main KLA elements are cooperating, but we don't know what fringe elements are out there,

Peter Drucker

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

Lord Acton

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

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.

Origen

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

Olivia Cooke

When I was filming Ouija, there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.

John Dewey

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

John Calvin

If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.

Joan Robinson

There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.

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.

Rudolf Arnheim

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Roger Penrose

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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.

Piers Anthony

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

Kanye West

I live and breathe every element in life.