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
The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together. — Arnold Adoff 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
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The universe starts off with the Big Bang theory, and the first thing that emerged from the Big Bang is essentially hydrogen… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I love Mix Tape. It combines three great elements - magic, music and a natural way of performing. I know that every… — Luke Jermay Copy Share Image
Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable. — Paul Konerko Copy Share Image
Sam Fuller and 'Shock Corridor' can only be conjured as a mantra. 'Shock Corridor' is a classic work of art - it's… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I… — George Michael Copy Share Image
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have… — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live… — Armin Hofmann Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people. — Brion James Copy Share Image
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results. — Friedrich Paneth Copy Share Image