Top 1200 Fifth Element Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .

I am a fifth-generation American, but from a young age, I went to yeshiva. I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis, and I think in Yiddish. To this day, I have to go back and unravel my writing and polish it so everyone doesn't sound like an old Jewish woman.

The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.

I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

There's an elusive element to comedy, but nobody gets it for free. That's why comedians seldom criticise each other.

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.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.

Winning matches on any surface will definitely give you a much larger element of trust in what you're doing.

A lot of Congressmen yesterday were upset when Kenneth Lay took the Fifth. Lay said it wasn't his fault. He had planned on testifying, but when Jeffrey Skilling testified, he took all the really good lies.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

The key to saving the Amazon and the rest of the world's great rainforests is actually very simple: just put a fair price on the role they play in providing a quarter of the world's oxygen, a fifth of fresh water, and 60 percent of its species.

A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very loudly that the piece has been ruined), since it corresponds perfectly to Aschenbach's yearnings and to his circling walks around Venice.

It was difficult after losing the first two sets and in the third set I was a break down, but something happened and I tried to run and keep fighting and I kept swinging in the third, fourth and fifth sets.

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

The refs are trying to do the right thing. They're trying to make the right calls, but if you put a lot of pressure on them as far as being in their face, it's embarrassing. They don't want to get yelled at a fourth, fifth time.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

You do not need to be in the single market we do not need that we are the word's fifth biggest economy. Most economies can agree free trade deals within two years the EU is taking 10 years or never at all, why?

After the fifth show as Hogan, my radio appearances had shriveled down to two a week Monday and Friday. One afternoon I stood before the camera, and I was so tired I couldn't remember a line. The next morning I said goodbye to radio or a while.

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

My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw Hendrix on TV. They showed him setting his guitar on fire and burning it for the Monterey Pop Festival.

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

There is a pop element to what I do, but I'm going for a deeper, more left-of-center vibe. That's the sound I've always been looking for.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

On its fifth full-length album, 'Cervantine,' A Hawk and a Hacksaw's love of the Balkans continues unabated, but with new songs and collaborators. In 'Uskudar,' the music finds an equal balance of sweet, sour and earthy sounds with nimble string melodies and a grunting tuba.

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my favorite kind of jokes.

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

Footwork is the biggest element to any quarterback game because if it's off, it will mess with your mechanics.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

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.

I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough to be one of the kids who bullied everyone in equal measure. I was a bully, in that I bullied a kid, whose name I won't mention here. My bullying was selective and personal.

Each and every one of us is amazing in our own way. We have five beautiful women who exude talent, and I am blessed and honored to be one of those women. For me, the bottom line is it's all about respect and love, and I have both for Fifth Harmony.

Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.

Nothing drives me more than to, hopefully, be able to hand (Steelers chairman Dan Rooney) that fifth (Vince Lombardi) trophy. If I can do that, then I would think, that when he brought me here, I finally accomplished what he wanted me to do.

Repeal of the individual AMT has been a fundamental element of Republican tax reform campaign promises for years.