The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and… — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value . — Sun Bin Copy Share Image
Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal… — Christoph Niemann Copy Share Image
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. — Joe Murray Copy Share Image
If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
As you grow, you develop the ideal of where your true belonging could be - the place, the home, the partner, and… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS)... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have… — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains,… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure,… — Jane Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Worldviews have four elements that help us understand how a person's story fits together: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. "Creation" tells us… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is… — Henri Copy Share Image
The activities and effects of the Fire and Air elements in the astral sphere call forth the astral-electric fluid, and the activities… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test.… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
The recipe for a human doesn't fill up a shopping list as you may suspect. Just twenty-two elements can describe almost all… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly. — Common Copy Share Image
Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
