Elements Quotes

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Life on a lifeboat isnâ€™t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldnâ€™t… — Yann Martel
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of… — William Shakespeare
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and… — David Foster Wallace
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I… — Jeanette Winterson
The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like… — Vladimir Nabokov
It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element… — Pope Benedict XVI
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation â€”… — Peter De Vries
I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I… — Stanley Kunitz
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury… — Lew Wallace
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a… — Alan Moore
Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul… — Laura Esquivel
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to… — Donald Miller
His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with. — Irvine Welsh
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with… — Paul Bowles
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions… — Martin Amis
No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a… — Marcel Proust
If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed… — C.S. Lewis
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the… — Rabindranath Tagore
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it. — H.G. Wells

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