The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love,… — Hutch Parker Copy Share Image
One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise. — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are no prog elements to Adrenaline Mob; it's very song-oriented, with shredding and grooves. — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
With some reservation, it can be said that certain democratic elements are present in Georgia as well; but it is very clear… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
When I get home from touring, I need to find something to match that so I don't get my adrenaline withdrawals. Being… — Mitch Lucker Copy Share Image
The first thing that happens is the cleansing of the former character. I don't think a lot of actors talk about it,… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Hence the solution lies in finding a means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that the basis… — Leon Pinsker Copy Share Image
Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of… — Josh Smith Copy Share Image
When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to… — David Christian Copy Share Image
More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of… — David Foster Wallace 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
There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should… — Origen Copy Share Image
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
