“I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.” HumansTwoSidesDarkDealsStruggleElementsAspectVampireWho We AreFascinatedFascinationDark Side Author:Sheryl Lee
“I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.” IfsYearsFirstsLooksStoriesTodayEnjoySidesRecordsHeardHugeElementsImpactWestSevenEightWest SideWest Side Story Author:Steve Vai
“Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensFactsSidesHuman BeingsEmotionCenturyKeysElementsIntellectualAspectTragicBeing Human20th CenturyAspects Of Life Author:Bill Viola
“I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.” IfsThinkingSidesFocusSeriousPersonalityElementsHumorousWho I AmNeglectDiverseSpectrum Author:Macklemore
“In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.” HumansSoulLightBeautifulLyingSidesBeautySunCreationMaterialsSourceCallingElementsInvestingLovelyPoeticHuman SoulHue Author:Giuseppe Mazzini
“Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!” SpiritHumanityFightingAsksSidesProgressFieldsEvolutionElementsFairsFingersWomens RightsFuture Of Humanity Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin
“I find what I call the [bleep] side of the industry very difficult. You won't see me at other peoples' premiers. I mean, I go to my own premiers because I have to help my film, but I don't enjoy that whole side of it. I don't enjoy celebrityhood. I love getting a seat in a restaurant. I love it when people say hi when I don't know them. I mean, that's fine, but apart from that, I like the elements of celebrityhood which make living in the world like living in your own village.” PeopleKnowsWorldMeanWholeHelpingFilmEnjoyDifficultSidesMy OwnFineIndustryElementsRestaurantsSeatsVillage Author:Jeremy Irons
“When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.” KnowsHumansWarEnoughActionDiesUnderstandingSidesRaceOne DayElementsDestructionTablesSurpriseDefenseErasHuman RaceConformBoth SidesConferencesHostilityReciprocalArmamentOutbreaksElement Of Surprise Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.” LittlesStoriesFoundHouseFunSidesSimpleBoysWifeFailingDangerActivityElementsWindowDestructionAddWinterMy WifeSnowWinnerExplorationBedroomPreparingRecipesAdequateRopeStairsMy Boys Book:Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar element on one side, and then some sort of really basic rhythm on the other side. That's where I started from in the recording process.” IdeasSongProcessSidesVoiceElementsGuitarRhythmTriangles Author:Panda Bear
“When I eat, I always pick out the best parts in the middle and leave everything else on the side. It becomes a big sculptural mess, but there are nice compositional elements about how it all sits on the table.” BigsSidesNiceMiddleElementsPicksTablesMess Author:Elizabeth Neel
“Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.” TwoSelfDesireSidesWaterChanceConsciousnessFireElementsShadowSplitsDiceArchetypeSynthesis Author:Chris Abani
“So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.” IfsShouldHumansSidesFeetJudgingElementsWaveEarthquakesYour SideChernobylVery CoolSimulateFukushima Author:Bill Gates
“Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides [EU and Greece] which has to be done.” CountryMatterDoneSidesElementsFindingsReasonableBoth SidesGreeceHumiliatedIntersections Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“I think one can see the [Donald] Trump program as if it were that element of the bailout of 2009 writ very large, and now extended out towards both fossil fuels, and, on the other hand, the infrastructure program, which is such a key element of the spending side of the Trump program.” IfsThinkingHandsSidesKeysTrumpElementsProgramSpendingFuelFossilsInfrastructureFossil FuelBailouts Author:Judy Woodruff
“You need a combination of many things to get good results. Experience is one of these, and it can be very useful at the right moment. I don't know if it helps to go faster, but for sure it's an important element that has helped me a lot. Being experienced helps you to make fewer mistakes when you are on track. This is the positive side for being around for so many years!” IfsKnowsNeedsYearsImportantMomentsHelpingSidesResultsMistakeElementsTrackFasterCombinationFewerRight Moment Author:Valentino Rossi
“Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.” PeopleIfsShouldHumansHeartRealFactsFeelingsWould BeLyingDiesGrowsSidesEmotionSilenceVisionMankindBearsElementsBeatsOrdinaryTragedyMovedHearingHuman LifeGrassUnusualImaginaryFrequencyDiscouragementSquirrelsHeart BeatCoarse Author:George Eliot
“The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.” WayWellsCountryFeelingsMightLawHumanityLeftSidesNovelElementsDrivingSymbolsPleasantProtestSiteTrafficHighwaysMeltingDisregardEliminationDisregardedDriving On Author:Vladimir Nabokov