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Quotes About Elements

As the universe expanded and cooled down, these very tiny bits of things came together to make particles. Then the particles came together to make the first of the atoms. Then the atoms came together to make molecules. Then the molecules came together to make the first of the stars. Those first stars went through their cycles, and exploded in a shower of new atoms. The new atoms came together to make more stars and planets. All the stuff we are made of came from those dying stars.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.
~ Owen King
There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
~ Werner Herzog
For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.
~ Matt Bomer
'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.
~ Craig Zadan
Incorporating travel, elements from different cultures and locales, is a great way to establish the overall tone and theme for a soiree.
~ Jeremiah Brent
I think I put a lot of special attention towards creating interesting textures and unique sounds. Music essentially boils down to two main elements: rhythm and melody. I feel tones and textures often get overlooked, so I like to take my time finding the right sounds.
~ Flume
It was a great challenge creating the Zumbarons. Coming up with the elements for each was the hardest, but it only took us one attempt and we were happy with the flavor.
~ Adriano Zumbo
When combining the elements on the Total Guide Solution, we believe we are positioning it to be the starting point for consumers to discover and enjoy digital entertainment on their television. And our name changed to Rovi embodied the ability to be that homepage for consumer search through the TV.
~ Alfred Amoroso
There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
~ Bruce Lipton
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.
~ Sharon Ralls Lemon
In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
~ George Washington
Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.
~ Herman Melville
Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together.
~ Merce Cunningham
I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly
~ Erin Morgenstern
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
~ Pierre Charron
She wondered if Howard, if Ken, would ever know love as she knew it. How would it come to them? It comes, she thought, not as affection or admiration, or any sentiment, but as if one suffered a blow, an impact; as if two elements rushed together and became one. It is all one can do to hold up under it. One is changed, and struggles along as a blinded, bewildered, changed being.
~ Mary O'Hara
The sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around, spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence – and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.
~ Mary Shelley
The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence—and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.
~ Mary Shelley
The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and was acquainted with their practical uses. The most learned philosopher knew little more.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995) by
~ Matt Zandstra
Shall I tell you the difference between you and your statue? No. But I want to. It's startling to see the same elements used in two compositions with opposite themes. Everything about you in that statue is the theme of exaltation. But your own theme is suffering. Suffering? I'm not conscious of having shown that. You haven't. That's what I meant. No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain.
~ Ayn Rand
But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can't stop talking about them.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can't stop talking about them. It gets to be
~ Barbara Kingsolver