The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences). — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage. — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read… — W. H. Auden 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
We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries,… — Serj Tankian 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
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would… — Taran Killam Copy Share Image
I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project… — Edward Mazria Copy Share Image
There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions. — Alexander Elder Copy Share Image
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important. — Zendaya Copy Share Image
What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The element of fashion I'd like to see more often? Clothes that fit people well. For me it's not so much about… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
I'm a fantasy guy. So I brought the fantasy element to the Riddick, David Twohy brought the sci-fi, and it came together.You… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from… — Sam Claflin Copy Share Image
. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image