An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences). — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage. — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“All the elements other than hydrogen and helium make up just 0.04 percent of the universe. Seen from this perspective, the periodic… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations.… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous acceleration and many of us will be moving dimensionally - through that sixth, seventh, dimensional element that will… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I personally don't think of the music as being particularly dark, though many seem to disagree as I often have to answer… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all… — Theodor Schwenk Copy Share Image
I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“...the relationships between the five elements. What are the five elements? They are wood, fire, earth, metal, water. These create, and also… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly. — Common Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I am financing global pictures with global talents. Of course I will bring in the Chinese elements, yet you have to have… — Bruno Zheng Wu Copy Share Image
Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which… — Eleanor Clift Copy Share Image
Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration. — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature. — Annie Jump Cannon Copy Share Image