(421 quotes found)
“Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.”
Henri Bergson
“Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.”
David McFadden
“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers
“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.”
Conrad Hilton
“The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.”
William Bernbach
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.”
Charles Baudelaire
“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.”
William Shakespeare
“It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.”
Jack Kerouac
