Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If we will concentrate on the best, that element will grow until it sparkles.

Herman Melville

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Henry David Thoreau

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Christopher Hitchens

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

George C. Marshall

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

George Orwell

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

Fernando Pessoa

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

Felix Klein

Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.

Christopher Paolini

And what I hoped, and what I still hope, is that within those familiar elements I'm able to provide a unique twist. If there's anything that's truly unique about the series, what I'm most proud of is Eragon's relationship with Saphira.

Esteban is an interesting player. He's a good rebounder and is physical around the basket, and those are elements our team needs. We feel he's a guy that can improve and we look forward to working with him.

Esteban is an interesting player, ... He's a good rebounder, and is physical around the basket, and those are elements our team needs. We feel he's a guy that can improve, and we look forward to working with him.

Mitchell Baker

Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.

Robert Collier

First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus - then the elements needed for its growth.

Sophie Hannah

Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.

Peter Lindbergh

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.

Ehud Barak

We should have no illusions: There are elements that will try to torpedo the peace process, ... They won't succeed.

There have been clashes between elements of the SSDF and the SPLM.

Is it (illegal) because there are some elements of this that may reflect poorly on John Kerry?

David Ayer

I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.

Tanith Belbin

We felt we improved on our performance at nationals. This is an invaluable experience for us to sees how our elements will be (scored).

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,

Park Chan-wook

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