#element

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#danny #element #encounters #freudian #heart

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them. ↗

— Joel Silver

#films #influenced #like #logan #lot

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#am #amazed #among #capability #college

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#been #clearly #cultural #define #dismissed

To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The same applies to the relationship of nature-spirits and the dead. But we may safely say that a large proportion of nature-spirits became fairies, while quite a number of the dead in some areas seem to take on the character of nature-spirits. We cannot expect any fixity of rule in dealing with barbaric thought. We must take it as it comes. It bears the same relationship to "civilized" or folk-lore theory as does the growth of the jungle to a carefully designed and meticulously labelled botanical garden. As Victor Hugo once exclaimed when writing of the barbaric confusion which underlies the creative function in poetry: 'What do you expect? You are among savages! ↗

— Lewis Spence

#fairies #fairy #nature-spirit #spirits #victor-hugo

I love to explore new and strange things in detail. This habit reduces element of surprises in my life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#prepared-mind #life

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#elements #fact #form #needed #truth

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people. ↗

— John Harrison

#bridge #center #diverse #element #explore

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#attitude #aware #burial #cultural #dead

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#elements #islam #radical #very