I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the… — Ramon Magsaysay Copy Share Image
For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset,… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I was getting really influenced by some darker, heavier electro stuff, like Crystal Castles. And I was listening to some dub-step elements,… — Lights Copy Share Image
There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before… — Josee Chouinard Copy Share Image
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“In deriving a body from the water type I intend to express that to this body, considered as an oxide, there corresponds… — Charles Gerhardt Copy Share Image
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
What motivates me is not one more championship, it is the challenge each year. I have just thoroughly enjoyed starting in spring… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and… — Moby Copy Share Image
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very… — Charlie Kimball Copy Share Image
I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That’s table sugar.… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element. — Doseone Copy Share Image
A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally. — Thomston Copy Share Image
