Elements Quotes - Page 28

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the axiom that the wretched of the earth, understood socially, think and thus must be a basis of a new politics. This, of course, is not achieved immediately, but it must become an explicit element of the struggle for liberation.

In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.

While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind.

An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a second residue equivalent to the first is accordingly a rotation about an axis accompanied by translation along the axis. Hence the only configurations for a chain compatible with our postulate of equivalence of the residues are helical configurations.

When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because they want to get all their money back. If you make a smaller film you can try a lot more things because you can have control over it and not just be a hired director. The lower the budget the more freedom you have.

This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.

Worldviews have four elements that help us understand how a person's story fits together: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. "Creation" tells us how things began, where everything came from (including us), the reason for our origins, and what ultimate reality is like. "Fall" describes the problem (since we all know something has gone wrong with the world). "Redemption" gives us the solution, the way to fix what went wrong. "Restoration" describes what the world would look like once the repair begins to take place.

Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

Through a particular magical practice it is possible to modify the being that has only one element into a being with four elements and to give it an immortal spirit. But a magicial will seldom intervene without good reason, because he is responsible and must justify his actions before Divine Providence.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

There [in Afghanistan] is also a growing insurgency threat from al-Qaida, the Taliban and other extremist elements, some of which comes from the tribal areas of Pakistan, as well as from the Northwest Frontier province and Baluchistan.

The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy.