Quotes by Elements In spite of all their kind some elements of worth Hugh MacDiarmid optimismhere-and-thereelements I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing. Henry Rollins gigselementspeople The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable. Hugh S. Johnson variablesoilelements Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien. Herman Melville digestionelementsmay It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical Haruki Murakami very-sadelementsseems We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it. Hutch Parker elementsfilmfeels When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers. Humphry Davy elementsnumberstwo The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow saturnelementspoetry I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much. Haruki Murakami elementsmissingthinking Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. Ian Mcewan elementsreadingself What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance. Igor Stravinsky fluctuationelementschance I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is. Henry Rollins elementsinsanereading In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions. Insoo Kim Berg elementsproblemdiscovery Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. Immanuel Kant yieldintuitionelements None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy. Ian Mcewan elementshealthylittles The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. Irving Babbitt divine-willelementsorder There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements. Frederick Lenz elementsbodyorganization People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have to engage with that if you're writing about the modern world. You've also got all these pop references that you feel obligated to make. They're just part of the bricolage of the whole thing, whether or not these are actually significant elements themselves. Irvine Welsh elementswritingpeople Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof. Ivan Reitman elementsgirlfirsts There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it. J. C. Chandor avant-gardeelementstaste«1718192021222324252627»
