Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important… — Lee Bermejo Copy Share Image
I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I want to be a hybrid fighter. From Pacquiao I was able to learn that a big heart is also essential when… — Tomoki Kameda Copy Share Image
The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you'll… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I think connecting natural elements and musicology is probably pretty idiosyncratic of me, so it is hard to imagine anyone else going… — Bjork Copy Share Image
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of… — Bryan Brown Copy Share Image
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
