Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing… — David Walton Copy Share Image
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going… — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take… — John Waters Copy Share Image
For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don't think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries - the United… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Normally we empower our demons by believing they are real and strong in themselves and have the power to destroy us. As… — Tsultrim Allione Copy Share Image
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse. — Mary Carroll Nelson Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by… — Jewell Jackson McCabe Copy Share Image
Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm a thug. And my thug comes from... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image