Elements Quotes · Page 138

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is…

— Robin Morgan

Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see,…

— Steven Pressfield

For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I…

— Gloria Steinem

Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away…

— Olivier Clement

The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is…

— Edmundo Desnoes

I did The Fifth Element and [Jean-Claude] Mezieres, the artist of Valerian; he was working on Fifth Element. And he's actually the…

— Luc Besson

Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of…

— Frederick Lenz

To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem…

— Alain de Botton

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so…

— Michael Fassbender

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish…

— George Crumb

If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame…

— Rick Riordan

Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency…

— George Trumbull Ladd

The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These…

— Benjamin Graham

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements,…

— William Shakespeare

After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that…

— Jason Schwartzman

A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may…

— Ethan Mordden

The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues…

— LZ Granderson

All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music,…

— Steve Vai

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so…

— Ruth Ozeki

There are so many wonderful shows that come out through the year. What makes some stick is an unknown factor, you know?…

— America Ferrera

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

— Franz Kafka

If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a…

— Will Oldham

In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

— Ed Asner