Elemental Quotes
102 quotes by 91 authors
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If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a…
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light…
— P. C. Cast
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Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a…
— Jodi Picoult
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The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can…
— Iain Banks
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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world...
— Franz Kafka
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She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body…
— Nalini Singh
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A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I need a weapon,†Valkyrie muttered. “You’re an Elemental with a Necromancer ring, trained in a variety of martial arts by some of the best…
— Derek Landy
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Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind…
— Edwin Way Teale
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Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park,…
— Jonathan Tropper
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Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there…
— Linda Hogan
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I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
— James Robertson
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Maybe I shouldn’t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.
— Kiersten White
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I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.
— Antony Gormley
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Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality,…
— Ruth Ozeki
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No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
— Christian Camargo
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Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is…
— Jean Giraudoux
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at…
— Kate Bernheimer
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Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense…
— Atul Gawande
Who Wrote These Elemental Quotes
91 authors contributed a total of 102 Elemental Quotes, led by these top contributors: