I’ve always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That’s how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

Our love was a river, always changing under the mercy of nature’s elements, but we continued to flow, even when we trickled.

There have been elements of performance this season that have made me happy, but by no means are we getting anywhere near the levels we aspire to.

When you do the math and examine how much energy is produced per atomic union, you find that fusing anything to iron’s twenty-six protons costs energy. That means post-ferric fusion* does an energy-hungry star no...

When you put your name on a fund, there’s a certain element of pride, of not wanting to be embarrassed or neglectful. . . . It forces you to want to work just a little...

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

Today, when there are fewer Holocaust survivors alive to share their experiences, the personal touch, the personal contact is important. We understand the importance of those elements in shaping the world, in shaping our minds.

I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.

A handful of anti-China elements within the United States are going all out to interfere with and obstruct the normal development of China-U.S. relations,

If they have all the elements, they can be legal tender.

Change is one of the most vibrant elements we can use to create a different tomorrow.

Instead of having a completely Western ballet, we have a ballet with elements of Indian dance.

Although we had a fall on a jump we did our best on all our other elements.

The old people, they struggled, they fought the elements, they fought everything was against them here. The river, the summers and the heat. So finally when they settled Hurricane there and got the water on...

The water and the wind will wear the wood down, until only water and wind remain.

This film, Red Eye, has new elements,

I think that there was an element of tiredness with all the recalls.

Don’t waste the elements nor misuse them.

There’s an element of fear and an element of a long-term revaluation of the market going on here.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.