Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle… — Bruce Timm Copy Share Image
A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents.… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Ayahuasca is a brew that's made from the vine, which is the hallucinogenic element. And then there's also this leaf from a… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
It is the Muslim community that has the best chance of stopping and checking and pushing back on people who are trying… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to… — Dorothy Nevill Copy Share Image
I'm really hands-on. My team brings in elements, but, every season, it's kind of a personal struggle to find the balance and… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not.… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with… — Cody Rhodes Copy Share Image
Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be… — Ed Royce Copy Share Image
My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image