Elementals Quotes

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Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but… — Joy Williams
The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder… — D. H. Lawrence
Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one… — Carl Orff
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be… — Stefan Zweig
What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues… — H. L. Mencken
And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow… — Terry Tempest Williams
HÃ©ctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a… — Stuart Dybek
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. — Carl Sandburg
The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer… — James Gleick
If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by… — Larry Sabato
Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the… — Andrew Wyeth
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but… — Theodore Roosevelt
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into… — Erasmus Darwin
The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light;… — John Paul Caponigro
There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual than his or her own consciousness. At the deepest level, our consciousness is… — Graham Hancock
Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I… — Amos Bronson Alcott
By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they… — Ronald Reagan
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. — Bill Griffith

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