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?
It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.
The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.
Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.
I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.
I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
General Munro: The Mondoshawans never fully trusted the human race.
David: Father, are you sure she's a supreme being?
There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
