The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds. — Wolfgang Ostwald Copy Share Image
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements. — Frank Carlucci Copy Share Image
Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print.… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to… — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
Ultimately people don't watch shows because of how realistic they are. They watch them because of the same dramatic elements that have… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going… — Yves Rossy Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
I want to be a hybrid fighter. From Pacquiao I was able to learn that a big heart is also essential when… — Tomoki Kameda Copy Share Image
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss. — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever… — Peter Noone Copy Share Image
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter… — John Maxwell Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy.… — Malcolm D. Lee Copy Share Image
Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still… — John Hartford Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing. — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
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