We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to… — Dorothy Nevill Copy Share Image
I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love… — Elton John Copy Share Image
To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own,… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is… — Bernard Membe Copy Share Image
Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real.… — Roksanda Ilincic Copy Share Image
There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This needs to work on that level, but it has the additional strain of it's going to be profoundly scrutinized by political… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic,… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are… — Alex Winter Copy Share Image
When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants,… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
