The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights. — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods,… — Charlie Dent Copy Share Image
In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate… — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand. — Fritz Maytag Copy Share Image
Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place… — Michael Rasmussen Copy Share Image
Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
If you're wealthy like Donald Trump is, and you have a preacher who says your wealth is a sign God approves of… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I have not attempted to try to relive or recreate the past; but I have sought guidance from those timeless elements in… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s… — Richard Ramirez Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people. — Brion James Copy Share Image
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose. — Vaginal Davis Copy Share Image
“A turmoil of winds rushed around him, spiraling up in to the air: he was thinking.” — Heather James Copy Share Image
The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music. — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
