Quotes and Sayings About Elements
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I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
-- Aaron Baddeley -
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika -
The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.
-- Adam Braun -
There was a little element of feeling like a cow.
-- Adam Gilchrist -
I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
-- Adam Lambert -
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
-- Ahmet Necdet Sezer -
I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
-- Alain Robert -
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
-- Alan Greenspan -
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
-- Alan Thicke -
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
-- Albert Camus -
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
-- Albert Camus -
In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.
-- Albert Einstein -
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
-- Alejandro Amenabar -
My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.
-- Alex Colville -
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
-- Alex Winter -
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
-- Alexander Calder -
So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.
-- Alexander Nehamas -
The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
-- Alfred Jarry -
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.
-- Amin Maalouf -
Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.
-- Amos Lee -
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
-- Anais Nin -
The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
-- Andre Kertesz