Elements Quotes - Page 12

There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.

Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.

Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.

Believe it or not, there are interesting elements in everyone. So, if I can't talk to everybody for at least 7 to 10 minutes, then I'm in the wrong profession.

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

The greatest polluting element in the earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be a far greater threat on a global scale than warming, or the increase of chemical elements in the environment.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.