Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings…

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you…

— Shakira

I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No…

— Tyler Hilton

I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some…

— Edward Einhorn

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,…

— Greta Scacchi

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement…

— Edward Hopper

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual…

— Kenneth Branagh

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

— Maya Angelou

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make…

— Brian Evenson

The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too…

— Jeff Cooper

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

— Remy de Gourmont

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

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart,…

— Ezra Taft Benson