“I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.” ThinkingKindSongChanceSpaceElementsStandardsPerformancesUltimateExcitingVariousVersionsManifestationMultipleImprovisationSacredness Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the book that I have a long term relationship with the short story as a form and I really love an elegantly crafted story that has several elements that come together in a way that is emotionally complex and different from when we started. That kind of crystalline, perfect, idealized thing that the short story as a genre has come to represent.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindLittlesLongBookDifferentStoriesTogetherFormThreeTermPerfectPiecesElementsDecidedComplexesStorytellingGenreLong TermShort StoryLong Term Relationship Author:Lucy Corin
“Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would otherwise never hear your work, and of course I find that very notion inspiring. Radio stories are powerful because the human voice is powerful. It has been and will continue to be the most basic element of storytelling. As a novelist (and I should note that working my novel is the first thing I do in the morning and the very last thing I do before I sleep), shifting into this new medium is entirely logical. It's still narrative, only with different tools.” PeopleShouldFirstsHumansKindHas BeensStillsDifferentStoriesLastsCoursesVoiceSleepPowerfulMorningNovelCuttingElementsToolsNotesNotionRadioStorytellingMediumsNarrativeNovelistsLogicalShiftingHuman Voice Author:Daniel Alarcon
“I want to tell everybody that you won't hear me trying to pop bottles in the club and all that kind of stuff. It's just not me and I think as long as you stay within your element and your age bracket, sure you're going a couple of young folks and teens, but that's not who I'm focused on. I'm really not. I love whoever supports, but I'm just not going to try and go back there because times have changed. If you don't move with the times, you'll get left off. I'm trying to change with the times.” IfsThinkingWantTryingKindLongAgeMovingYoungLeftStuffSupportChangedCoupleElementsFolksClubsPopsFocusedBottlesTeensTrying To ChangeTimes Have ChangedBrackets Author:Ginuwine
“Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.” KindImportantLyingCertainLeftTeachElementsImportanceIronyProseUnsaid Author:Sam Hamill
“If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a relationship. Recording for the BBC you enter into this strange and wonderful, but kind of sterile, place with which you have no personal history, and that's the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London.” IfsKindMightRecordsWonderfulStrangeElementsStudiosLondonRecallsKentuckyPersonal History Author:Will Oldham
“Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.” KindWaterHealingInvolvedElementsBaptismPurifying Author:Eyvind Kang
“David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him].” PeopleKindWantedUsedElementsObsessedLoadBowie Author:Simon Taylor-Davis
“I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.” PeopleThinkingKindEasyBlackIdentityColorGayConflictElementsDirectAll KindsLayers Author:John Amaechi
“It [Hancock] happens to be a big budget film and big star like Will Smith, but it actually has a lot of weight to it. But it was very smart and very intelligent and had this kind of historical element to it that I was fascinated by. It's not silly. It's not stupid. It's fun, but I think it's smart. I think Akiva [Goldsman] writes really interesting material and there you have it.” ThinkingWritingKindBigsHappensFilmFunStarsInterestingStupidMaterialsElementsSmartWeightIntelligentHistoricalSillyBudgetsFascinatedReally InterestingVery SmartNot Stupid Author:Charlize Theron
“My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.” KindHas BeensFilmCertainProgressElementsMinimalism Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do.” KindCan DoElementsLawyerAdvertisingFloridaMecca Author:Carl Hiaasen
“I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.” WritingKindSongElementsVisuals Author:Nick Cave
“There's that kind of song, "Whoah baby, I love you," which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever.” FeelsKindSongStrongLove YouEmotionalBabyElementsVisualsVery StrongStrong EmotionalI Love You Baby Author:Nick Cave
“I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.” WorldKindI CanPassionProcessMy OwnEvolutionElementsHappeningsWho You AreConstantInterviewsBubblesSincerelyThought ProcessDior Author:Charlize Theron
“I kind of started with this foundation, and tried to do all the research I could do for Alice [Cullen], and then every time a [new] director would come in, they have their own artistic take on things and add in new elements. And a lot of times they would ask, "What did you love that you portrayed, and what do you wish that you could show?" So I felt, with each installment, I got the opportunity to add on something. I think she was very - you know, really sweet, [laughs] a little odd in the first installment.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsKindLittlesShowsAsksOpportunityWishFeltLaughingSweetDirectorsElementsResearchFoundationAddArtisticOddReally SweetAlice Cullen Author:Ashley Greene
“NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed to expand the power of transnational corporations. They're very basically investor's rights agreements. One crucial part in both is the "intellectual property right," which is a funny way of saying that corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, will have near-monopolistic rule over future technology. This now includes product as well as process rights.” WayWellsKindProcessCompanyTechnologyRightsProductsElementsIntellectualPropertyProtectionCorporationsAgreementCrucialInvestorsMixturesIntellectual PropertyPharmaceuticalNaftaPharmaceutical CompaniesTransnational Corporations Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least the principle of evil, and the reason for this is that he thinks that the the One, the highest principle, can also be thought of as the Good, and that's kind of surprising like, because he has this negative theology which doesn't allow us to say anything about the One. But he believes that it can be seen as the principle of goodness as well as unity, and that if you think about it, goodness and unity sort of go along with each other.” IfsThinkingBelieveWellsKindMatterReasonEvilViewsPrinciplesGoodnessElementsHighestNegativeStrongerUnityTheologySurprisingSay AnythingControversial Author:Peter Adamson
“Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.” IfsWorldFirstsBelieveHumansKindWould BeLanguageNaturalStepsExerciseElementsCapacityMiracleConfusionDataRelatedAcquirePetFirst StepsBeesInnateNatural WorldAcquisitionKittenEndowmentBloomingGranddaughterLanguage AcquisitionSongbirds Author:Noam Chomsky
“In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind of time travel.” LooksKindMadeMemoriesFictionChildhoodEffectsGrewElementsGrew UpScience FictionTime Travel1960sFiction Writers Author:William Gibson
“All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of their femininity and have to blend it in with masculinity... it's a kind of protection. Somebody like Madonna is strong but soft. You have to be that way in this business.” WorldWayKindFightingStrongElementsProtectionMasculinityFemininityMusic Business Author:Nelly Furtado
“You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements of the country that have always been there but were kind of marginal to the political system, for example, religious extremists.” WayKindHas BeensCountryPoliticalReligiousGoneExampleRepublicanElementsVoteVotersCompelledExtremistPolitical Systems Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or is an element in some of my books, and that's probably a direct result of where I've grown up. But other than that I don't draw particularly on the Australian landscape or the Australian biology and so on. So I don't think there's anything you could point to and say is particularly Australian.” ThinkingKindBookStoriesResultsElementsDrawsDirectLegsLandscapeBiologySense Of HumorPullingAustralianLaconic Author:Garth Nix
“The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingKindBookDifferentProblemTodayChristianCultureCommonKnow HowInformationFieldsElementsChosenSupposed To BeDifferent KindsSymbolicBack WhenCathedralsSpecialistsSelectiveEncyclopediaCommon CultureSymbolic Meaning Author:Eugene Green
“To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.” IfsKindBookSchoolFoundFantasyCrazyHonestCollegeInvolvedFitElementsHigh SchoolExcitedMoodBeing HonestNot SureLiberatingImageryGet RealPsychedelicSurrealismExtravagantLorcaSchool English Author:Elaine Equi
“The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.” PeopleFeelsTryingKindMeanTogetherThreeLike YouConversationElementsSwingsComponentsImprovisationMaking Up Author:Wynton Marsalis
“I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.” KindTalkingTeamFieldsPositionElementsEastInstructionCoastVariablesEast Coast Author:Bill Parcells
“A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.” TryingKindChildrenFightingElementsTitlesPublicityChangelingsSupernatural Elements Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch' was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, 'Oh crap, this could really happen to me.'” IfsThinkingKnowsKindRealReasonHappensElementsScaredScaryParanormalWitchCrapMake You ThinkBlair Author:Marlon Wayans
“When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.” WayKindEmotionAudienceBuildingElementsProgramStandingSensationsCheerMost AmazingSportsmanFootwork Author:Johnny Weir
“Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.” PeopleKindDreamWantedEnjoyGrowing UpGrowingBandElementsHarderCrowdsComing OutPunkSurfingGigs Author:Florence Welch
“I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsKindBigsWould BeActionElementsAnalysisIf I CouldDefenceRetrospective Author:Russell Brand
“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.” WayHumansKindHas BeensGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsRaceLordDemocracyTroubleAchieveWorstMankindPlanetsWindAuthorityElementsFellowsCommandGrassHuman RaceBossIngredientsSubmitLowestSovereigntyParliamentMeadowsBulliedTossDepravedScumIndignity Book:Thrown Under the Omnibus Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus
“For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.” MenKindDangerRevolutionElementsAll KindsDiscontentDissatisfaction Book:The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.” KindForceSocialEffectsPoetReaderElementsStagnant Author:Denise Levertov
“This is the most important lesson you must learn about magic," Miss Ochiba went on. "There are many ways of seeing. Each has an element of truth, but none is the whole truth. If you limit yourselves to one way of seeing, one truth, you will limit your power. You will also place limits on the kinds of spells you can cast, as well as their strength. To be a good magician, you must see in many ways. You must be flexible. You must be willing to learn from different sources. And you must always remember that the truths you see are incomplete.” IfsWayLifeWellsKindImportantDifferentWholeRememberSeeingMagicMissingWillingSourceLessonsLimitsElementsCastsOne WaySpellsMagicianFlexibleIncompleteImportant LessonsWhole TruthWilling To Learn Author:Patricia C. Wrede
“You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.” IfsWayKindMatterEnoughBodyTodayJesusStarsForgetEvolutionElementsDiedYour BodyNuclearIronCarbonOxygenThings That MatterStardustFurnacesNitrogen Author:Lawrence M. Krauss