Element Quotes

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.