Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Hitchens

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

This seizure confirms that foreign elements were given shelter by some tribesmen,

We've had a surprising number of elementary school students absent.

We are trying to keep kids from having to go to three elementary schools in three years. There will be a few, but we are trying to limit it as much as possible.

Park Chan-wook

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

At the moment there is no element in this village indicating human-to-human transmission. It's typically similar to what we have seen so far (in Asia).

Chris Johnson

There's still an element of the self-fulfilling prophecy here, in that you're seeing people jump into a rally just because it's the end of the year and we're supposed to have a rally. I wouldn't be surprised if we're lollygagging around here until the end of the year.

Steve Toltz

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

There's nothing you can really put a finger on, except preparation. For whatever reason, maybe we feel too good about ourselves. We shouldn't. I think we get out of our element a little bit. Then we try to do too much.

Nick Zinner

I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

M. Ward

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

Lucretius

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Lucretius

Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.

Mary Augusta Ward

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Neil Gaiman

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Michael Howard

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

Joe Mantello

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

In all of the options there is a range we looked at smaller- and larger-sized elementary buildings.

Waris Ahluwalia

I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.

Jonathan Tropper

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

If you can get the elementary student involved, they will take that home and pass it to their parents and friends. Those little first- through third-graders are the keys to home safety.

Jerry Stackhouse

I like starting the game, getting into a flow early. It's like sitting on pins and needles waiting to get into the game off the bench. I've done it for a year and half. It was cool, but I feel more in my element (starting).

I?m really passionate about music, and I?m upset about the elementary music programs being cut. Elementary school, that?s when my passion for music started developing.

I'm more focused on the positive element of an end to U.S. rate increases rather than the slowdown.

If one element isn't there, it makes for a tough night. We need all people going at once, and there can't be any letdowns. We have nowhere to go but up at this point.

It's kind of surreal at that time because you know you're going to be here but you really can't into the element and get in the zone until you're here.

Drew Brees

It's going well. It's a slow process, and there's just a healing element to the whole thing.

It should not be seen as a separate element of the game within the game but rather as acting.

It's hard to put words into what we're feeling right now. . . . For some reason, we had to fight through all our elements in a negative way.

It's hard to point to any single inspiration for 'iZombie' since, in actuality, it's made up from elements inspired by all kinds of different thing all mashed up together.

Steve Alford

It's been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden's statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it's Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.

Kevin Spacey

It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It's also funny.