“Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and repelled at the same time, and it has to have that dynamic. My work has a certain element of abject mutation, uncertainty and darkness. Even she is dark - I mean she has ten breasts.” PeopleThinkingMeanBeautifulCertainDarkDarknessTenElementsUncertaintyBreastsAmbiguousGrotesqueMutationShe Is Beautiful Author:Patricia Piccinini
“My wife fosters dogs, to try and give these lost puppies a chance to get adopted. I'm grateful to my wife for that, she brings that element to my family and my kids get to understand what that means.” GivingTryingMeanKidsLostChanceWifeDogElementsMy FamilyGratefulMy WifeAdoptedPuppy Author:Dan Payne
“There's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely clear in their error and their stupidity, and so you can really go after them.” KnowsMeanClearElementsErrorsStupidityParadoxWhere You Stand Author:Richard Dawkins
“I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it's a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one's personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there's nothing wrong with that.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanChildrenDoeHandsWould BeBeliefViewsDangerousPersonalityElementsMajorsEnlightenmentValuablePhenomenonAssociationIrrationalSolidaritySustenanceIrrational Beliefs Author:Noam Chomsky
“I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.” IfsMeanLittlesPersonsStillsActionBitsRolesAudienceHeroElementsLittle BitModelsRole ModelsAction Heroes Author:Dolph Lundgren
“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
“To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.” MayMeanShowsRealityFacesElementsDollarsArtisticPerformersCentsShow BusinessGeneral Public Author:Liza Minnelli
“When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.” ThinkingMeanDoneUseJobsSpiritualHealingBrokenTerribleDiseaseElementsMedicineVery GoodLegsViolationSkisWhy Me Author:Abraham Verghese
“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.” IfsNeedsMeanDoeCharacterFeelingsActionPastRaceAttitudeDestinyElementsResponsibleBackgroundsChemistryBondageInheritanceOur DestinyOur ActionsDiscouragingAltered Author:Anais Nin
“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.” MeanPersonsFriendshipTakenFriendsElementsComfortableGrantedComplimentTrustedTaken For GrantedTaking Things For GrantedTook For GrantedThings We Take For GrantedLife For GrantedTaking Life For Granted Author:Joyce Brothers
“For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.” PeopleWorldWayMeanChildrenTwoEndsCareThreeAbilityHalfViolenceElementsElectionDollarsEndureStartingPopulationCorruptionBillionsAround The WorldHealth CareDecentShelterElectricityArbitraryLiving OnDeliveranceStarting PointDecent Life Book:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.” WayMeanPrayerGraceOur LivesElementsIncludingUnpredictableGrace Of GodPredictable Author:Philip Yancey
“I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.” PeopleIfsMeanUseLeftTermJusticeHonestMovementElementsWorkersDefinitionsCommittedBeing HonestMean PeoplePeace And Justice Author:Noam Chomsky