Top 52 Elaine May Quotes
#1. I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.
Elaine Stritch
#3. Monsters serve both to mark the fault-lines but also, subversively, to signal the fragility of such boundaries.
Elaine Graham
#4. When you've lost everything, you can walk through hell and not even feel the heat.
Elaine Hussey
#5. Wisdom comes from knowing the order of things ... and you are the first order of your business.
Elaine Marolakos Edelson
#6. You are sunshine and moonlight, laughter and joy, a life lived entirely without fear. You heard the call of a dream and made it a reality. You are everything I believed I was fighting for all those years.
Elaine Levine
#7. Sometimes the only way to remain strong is to hole up with your best friend and try to forget you are standing on a stick of dynamite with enemies lined up, itching to light the fuse.
Elaine Hussey
#9. I'm a vegetarian, but my family isn't. If I can keep everything in my house healthy, I don't have to worry as much when I eat out.
Elaine Irwin
#10. Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.
Elaine De Kooning
#11. All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.
Elaine Stritch
#12. Jaxton hadn't changed, but he had. Maybe his old crush still hated him, but it shouldn't
matter anymore. It didn't matter anymore. He was older, wiser and he had moved on. Jaxton
was nothing more than an old high school crush.
Elaine White
#13. In American mah jongg there are five different categories of tiles: Suit tiles, Dragon tiles, Wind tiles, Flower tiles, and Joker tiles - 152 tiles in all.
Elaine Sandberg
#14. The battle for the lead between faith and reason can be settled by accepting the guiding hand of an experienced navigator.
Elaine Orabona Foster
#15. Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.
Elaine A. Cannon
#16. SciFi: When there's a serious problem and everyone decides to solve it sensibly.
Elaine Greywalker
#17. To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.
Elaine Dundy
#18. Anxiety is like a telescope that captures light from distant stars that may have already died. Use it at your own risk to observe things that are within easy reach.
Elaine Orabona Foster
#20. The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
Elaine May
#21. The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.
Elaine Morgan
#22. it is still the case that he "can look in her eyes and disappear." He may not know how to live with her, but he will always know he loves her
Elaine N. Aron
#23. Your body and the environment around you may reflect the disturbing and unusual activities unfolding across the globe as the planet evolves.
Elaine Seiler
#24. The only safe thing is to take a chance.
Elaine May
#25. You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, "What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?" Does that ever make you anxious?
Elaine May
#26. I believe that every individual has an inner energy worker, however each worker may do the work differently. Each of us has unique skills and abilities. In this section you will begin to identify your unique capabilities.
Elaine Seiler
#27. I let go of the past And took in a deep breath I'm ready to embrace what's next Whatever comes my way I'll find a way to cope As I breathe the fresh air of a new day My lungs fill with hope
Elaine Allen
#29. [T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
Elaine Dundy
#30. I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.
Elaine Stritch
#31. Cartilage in the center of the diaphysis calcifies and then
develops cavities.
Elaine N. Marieb
#32. That's what a bitch feng shui and fortune-telling can be. Not only do you have to follow it, you have to fucking enjoy it at the same time.
Elaine Lui
#33. When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.
Elaine Sciolino
#34. I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I say it now: it just isn't our century.
Elaine Dundy
#35. I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.
Elaine Stritch
#36. Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.
Elaine Pagels
#37. These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
Elaine Pagels
#38. For a full two hours, he stood at that door, a cloud of uncertainty ruling his mind. Damian felt like his heart was about to burst. Could she love him? Was it really true?
Elaine White
#39. My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.
Elaine Stritch
#40. Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,
Elaine Chao
#41. Developing spirituality is critical to our eternal progress. The fruits of eternal progress are manifest in joy, peace, love, hope, increased confidence in the Lord.
Elaine L. Jack
#42. Sometime in your past you entered a social situation (usually overstimulating to begin with) and felt that you failed. Others said you did something wrong
Elaine N. Aron
#43. We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.
Elaine Chao
#44. The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.
Elaine Pagels
#45. My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.
Elaine Paige
#46. The key to understanding the answer to any questions about guidance is having a clear grasp of what is three-dimensional.
Elaine Seiler
#47. we also discover that much of our most potent creative energy arises from the flames of past injustices and inhibited creative efforts.
Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
#48. I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.
Elaine Stritch
#49. There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.
Elaine Pagels
#50. New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'
Elaine Stritch
#51. I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.
Elaine Paige
#52. I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed to be the glamorous thing to do at the time. It was my ideal of glamour.
Elaine Dundy
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