To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element o….

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers..

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical - that is, capable of combining into me….

None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly….

The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're setting ….

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

The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of s….

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced c….

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language..

Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the sy….

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things..

Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness..

The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world are violated by ill treatment….

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences..

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding..

There is no realism without an element of idealism..

After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the tou….

A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered e….

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise..

All of my films I've made have had an element of physicality and action but I really enjoy the drama of it because it's where I feel I'm really doing….

To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in t….