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Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment. -- J. K. Rowling
Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer. -- Carl Orff
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. -- Charles Wagner
I just want my work to be part of the elemental world. -- Antony Gormley
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. -- Karl Kraus
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. -- Carl Sandburg
As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties. -- Pankaj Mishra
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it. -- Maggie Smith
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. -- Bill Griffith
I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter. -- Naveen Jain
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key. -- Christopher Nolan
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through. -- Christian Camargo
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. -- Henry Beston
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. -- Saint Augustine
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. -- Hjalmar Branting
In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types. -- Terence McKenna
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. -- Albert Einstein
Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord. -- Jean Giraudoux
You cannot do anything without God. It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God. -- Marco Rubio
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. -- Stefan Zweig
If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. -- Larry J. Sabato
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. -- Stewart Udall
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith. -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people. -- Atul Gawande
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires. -- Kate Bernheimer
The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school! -- Maxine Kumin
An eye for an eye is elemental. -- Lou Reed
The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body. -- Antony Gormley
Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world... -- Franz Kafka
Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force. -- Paulo Coelho
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. -- Albert Einstein
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My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die. -- Sharon Shinn
A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing. -- Tod Papageorge
There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself. -- Linda Hogan
Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life. -- David Platt
After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours. -- Janet Kauffman
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper. -- James Robertson
Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental. -- Hanna Rosin
Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival. -- Bettina Boxall
How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! -- Arthur Conan Doyle
And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank -- Joseph Conrad
The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe. -- Barack Obama
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power. -- Adrienne Rich
Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire. -- Rob Delaney
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings. -- Rollo May
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality. -- Andrew Wyeth
I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture. -- Thomas Jefferson
The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea. -- Henry David Thoreau
Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way. -- James Carlos Blake
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry. -- Aldo Leopold
Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot. -- D. H. Lawrence
Black, white and nude are my essential colors. Each time I start a collection, I start with these colors; they are the elemental colors we refer to from the beginning. -- Narciso Rodriguez
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. -- Emile M. Cioran
Rock. . . is the expression of elemental passions...In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration -- Hjalmar Branting
Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature. -- Camille Paglia
I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs. -- Robert Mondavi
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us. -- Joy Williams
Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining the young to fight for elemental kinds of justice. -- Jonathan Kozol
What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. -- Jay Griffiths
Dead isn't angels or ghosts. It's a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a bodyso that they can return to their most elemental stage. -- Jodi Picoult
Dead isn't angels or ghosts. It's a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a bodyso that they can return to their most elemental stage." -- Jodi Picoult
The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties, for wise and foolish acts against which civilization has built a thousand buffers. -- Aldo Leopold

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