Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There… — Rufus Wainwright 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
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that… — Rob Dyrdek Copy Share Image
In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity… — John Day Copy Share Image
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water;… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] just would not be in his element and I think he would wobble off course and I think the country… — William Weld Copy Share Image
No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. — Luke McShane Copy Share Image
The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd… — Rupert Giles Copy Share Image
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into… — Sam Claflin Copy Share Image
The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group… — Salva Kiir Mayardit Copy Share Image
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image