Elements Quotes - Page 24

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.

The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.

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.

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.

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

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.

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.

The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.