Famous Quotes & Sayings

Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised,

Kevin Weisman

I like the first-person games, but I like the two-person element in terms of playing basketball games with my friends. That's a good time; we have tournaments and things.

Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit

Karl Marx

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Mary McCarthy

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

Nicholas Negroponte

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

Mitchell Hurwitz

There are elements of that, where you'll see a scene again and you'll recognize it, but I wouldn't say it's got one conceit like that, at all. It definitely has those jokes, but it would be wrong to say this is a show where, every time you see it, you see a new angle.

Igor Stravinsky

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

Gregory Maguire

The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

Mary J. Blige

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

Neville Cardus

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Noam Chomsky

From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.

Graham Nelson

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Milton Friedman

The stock market crashed in October 1929. But that was not the cause of what caused the Great Depression. It was, in my opinion, a very minor element of it. What happened was that from 1929 to 1933 you had a major contraction which, in my opinion, was caused primarily by the failure of the Federal Reserve System, to follow the course of action for which it was set up. It was set up to prevent exactly what happened from 1929 to 1933. But instead of preventing it, they facilitated it.

Kate Braverman

The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.

Kim Gordon

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

Margaret Atwood

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...

He really blossomed when he went to the elementary school. He just always loved young kids.

Ernst Mach

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

Our end game is to take out the leadership elements especially. These arrests are a means to that end.

Richard Riley

Our elementary schools are getting better at teaching the basics,

Peter Guber

'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

Ariel Sharon

The situation is not simple, ... You have to see the whole picture. That responsibility is on my shoulders. I want to tell you restraint is an element of strength.

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

That's not to say that elementary teachers are not important, but we know we have a shortage in the math and science areas.

Stephen Harper

You would think there would be some element of shame. There is none whatsoever.

The unruly elements of this family's story need not be left for the public to analyze,

Scott Evans

There was no other single element of the 216th that worked as hard or worked at more places than the equipment platoon from right here in Felicity, Ohio, ... They will have a place of honor in the history of the 216th and the Ohio National Guard forever, as will the maintenance platoon, which is also located here at Felicity.

Robert Ford

There weren't any dummies in there. There weren't elements to test her, like someone known not to be near the party or involved.

There were a lot of elements to this. It wasn't just recent results. I've been contemplating looking at this situation real seriously for the last three, four months.

Herbie Hancock

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.

As a smaller elementary school, if they can get out there and do it, we should do well.

The big risk are spoilers who want to produce violence to undermine this positive effort. At the moment the parties should do their utmost to stop violence, but they should not let violent elements and spoilers derail the process.