Elements Quotes · Page 21

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

— Salman Rushdie

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

— Clive Owen

Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free.

— Mandisa

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

— Johnny Weir

The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist.

— Michael Ventura

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

— Bruno Mars

Never mishandle hope or self-confidence - those are elements of life, not just a game.

— John Kessel

The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck.

— Gilbert Perreault

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

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

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element…

— Lord Acton

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully…

— Paul Auster

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

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't…

— Ken Robinson

The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more…

— Maynard James Keenan

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after…

— May Sarton

There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It…

— Jean Piaget

As I have come to realize that we all live and move and have our being in God, the names of each…

— Sallie McFague

If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could…

— Philip Auslander

Reverence, human of the Earth, is the fundamental element of all existence, so it is therefore also the fundamental element of love…

— Billy Meier

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and…

— Isham G. Harris

The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers…

— Jeff Fisher

Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm.…

— Manning Marable

The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and…

— D. H. Lawrence

Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable")…

— Giordano Bruno

Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how…

— Adria Petty

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the…

— Haim Ginott

I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that…

— Gilberto Gil

The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the…

— Eugene Green

We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic…

— Stephen Batchelor

I find what I call the [bleep] side of the industry very difficult. You won't see me at other peoples' premiers. I…

— Jeremy Irons

I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.

— Tabatha Coffey

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

— Kingsley Amis

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

— Jan Tschichold

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways

— Jacque Fresco

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

— Michael Steinhardt

The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

— John Henry Jowett