Top 100 Elaine's Quotes

#1. 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

Elaine's Quotes #6811
#2. 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

Elaine's Quotes #15328
#3. I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #32536
#4. My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #42253
#5. 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

Elaine's Quotes #42607
#6. 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

Elaine's Quotes #50368
#7. 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

Elaine's Quotes #78322
#8. The battle for the lead between faith and reason can be settled by accepting the guiding hand of an experienced navigator.

Elaine Orabona Foster

Elaine's Quotes #103445
#9. All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #144407
#10. SciFi: When there's a serious problem and everyone decides to solve it sensibly.

Elaine Greywalker

Elaine's Quotes #150264
#11. A life's record with God in the details can be a spiritual feast for our souls. When we count our blessings on paper, our gratitude soars. It is all so evident.

Elaine A. Cannon

Elaine's Quotes #168699
#12. Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #176117
#13. My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

Elaine Maxwell

Elaine's Quotes #214278
#14. Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #242435
#15. I get sick of saying how hard everything is. It's hard to get up in the morning. Everything's hard. Everything takes effort.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #242810
#16. I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #253072
#17. You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #255331
#18. Mothers, your relationship with your daughter is of paramount importance, and so is your example. How you love and honor her father, his priesthood, and his divine role will be reflected and perhaps amplified in your daughter's attitudes and behavior.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #260197
#19. Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key.

Elaine Paige

Elaine's Quotes #275812
#20. After Ann Godoff, who was editor-in-chief at Random House, left and went to Viking, I got to know Viking and the people there, and liked them very much. I also found a wonderful editor there, Wendy Wolf. It's a very congenial press.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine's Quotes #307590
#21. I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

Elaine Paige

Elaine's Quotes #319136
#22. What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus is and the wonderful works of Jesus, it focuses on how you and I can find the kingdom of God, or life in the presence of God.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine's Quotes #322994
#23. Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #352101
#24. Where we got to know eachother. Not just with words, it was how we observed eachother's movements. The way your smile only effected the lower half of your face. How our hands moved when they were close: as if they had minds of their own.

Elaine Turnbo

Elaine's Quotes #357710
#25. Your brand is a combination of a customer's experiences with your business at every touchpoint. Each memory, thought, impression, website visit, story, sales letter, social media post, event, phone call, and transaction contribute to
your company's brand reputation.

Elaine Fogel

Elaine's Quotes #364418
#26. There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #385258
#27. She's learned to listen more and improve different aspects of her game. I'm most proud that she's improved her sportsmanship, her demeanor on the field. She's still working on leadership and that's improving.

Elaine Jones

Elaine's Quotes #389910
#28. If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

Elaine Gill

Elaine's Quotes #411409
#29. No matter what you do you've got to try to do it well. Otherwise, it's unbearable.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #422835
#30. I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #461752
#31. ELAINE: Jerry, it's B.O. JERRY: But the whole car smells. ELAINE: So? JERRY: So when somebody has B.O., the "O" usually stays with the "B." Once the "B" leaves, the "O" goes with it.

Scott Sedita

Elaine's Quotes #523810
#32. A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in spite of them. Afflictions be praised!

Elaine A. Cannon

Elaine's Quotes #540916
#33. Once upon a time there were two seven-year-old boys named Bruce and David. They both had mother s who loved them very much.
Each boy's day began differently.

Elaine Mazlish

Elaine's Quotes #552084
#34. Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

Elaine Sciolino

Elaine's Quotes #560578
#35. I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.

Elaine Paige

Elaine's Quotes #574976
#36. You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #594582
#37. I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #594663
#38. Now that she is gone, I suppose there is no one left to care about it. " "That's not true Camille. I care." The woman looked at her with wonder in her eyes.

Sara Elaine Violet

Elaine's Quotes #622052
#39. It would make it that much harder to delude ourselves that humanity's ancestors, alone in the animal kingdom, lost their hair by wandering out into the sunshine.

Elaine Morgan

Elaine's Quotes #629391
#40. Tony Bennett said to me, "Wow, your talent is amazing." Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #632901
#41. He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine's Quotes #641130
#42. Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

Elaine A. Cannon

Elaine's Quotes #643460
#43. If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

Elaine Paige

Elaine's Quotes #648797
#44. As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters - because we matter.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #671324
#45. Elaine: He saved my life twice. He's the only grown-up I know who keeps his promises.
Michael: Yes. It is a point of pride with him. But please - don't mistake it for a virtue.

Mike Carey

Elaine's Quotes #674807
#46. I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #681494
#47. It was one of those nights when the air is blood-temperature and it's impossible to tell where you leave off and it begins.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #695485
#48. Everybody's got a sack of rocks.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #708211
#49. And this is the end of Elaine Stainless, it seems. I thought I was helping those I'd harmed before, somehow - that I was making amends. I still think that now, if I'm honest. It's not like there's anything else I can do. Your backstory always gets you in the end.

Jason Heller

Elaine's Quotes #716075
#50. I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #728392
#51. If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #731900
#52. There's something exciting about being afraid.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #737608
#53. I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine's Quotes #739405
#54. The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine's Quotes #744084
#55. To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #750428
#56. I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #762864
#57. It's so easy, a child could do it.

Elaine J. Keller

Elaine's Quotes #766181
#58. Angela has a boyfriend. Actually, he's a friend with benefits."
"What's that?" Grandma said.
"It means she likes him, and she sleeps with him sometimes when she feels like it."
"In my day, we called that a husband," Grandma said.

Elaine Viets

Elaine's Quotes #778426
#59. A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #787628
#60. I never weigh myself. That's the best advice I can give - never step on a scale. You know if you're being healthy, if you're exercising. You don't need to be undermined by some crazy number.

Elaine Irwin

Elaine's Quotes #805966
#61. Tell her next time to look where she's going.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #841611
#62. But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

Elaine Paige

Elaine's Quotes #842339
#63. Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.

Elaine De Kooning

Elaine's Quotes #888542
#64. What's the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it's over.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #910211
#65. The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato's Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

Elaine Scarry

Elaine's Quotes #918395
#66. I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.

Elaine Miller

Elaine's Quotes #932716
#67. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.
I am the force.

Elaine Maxwell

Elaine's Quotes #936723
#68. It's just that I know the world is so wide and full of people and exciting things that I just go crazy every day stuck in these institutions. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes lots of training. You have to start very young.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #937642
#69. Sybilla poked her head inside. "We should go down to the hall now or risk Alysandir's displeasure.

Elaine Coffman

Elaine's Quotes #945773
#70. There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #964642
#71. You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #978049
#72. Come on in," Elaine said. "She's already here. Pam, this is Mr. Scudder, Matthew Scudder. Matt, I'd like you to meet Pam.

Lawrence Block

Elaine's Quotes #1022899
#73. God speaks in a soft voice I can hear better when I resolve to listen and stop putting words in His mouth.

Elaine Orabona Foster

Elaine's Quotes #1022969
#74. The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine's Quotes #1047158
#75. Elaine's lows were low, but her highs were...well her highs were magic that transformed mere earth, air, and water into the breath of life.

Mark Adam Kaplan

Elaine's Quotes #1055728
#76. Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.

Denis Leary

Elaine's Quotes #1061554
#77. Elaine sat on the breezeway in an old yellow nightgown of her mother's waiting for something to happen.' [ ... ] I sat like that for about an hour, trying to think what would come next, and in my mind, the barefoot doll in her mother's old yellow nightgown sat and stared into space as well.

Sylvia Plath

Elaine's Quotes #1082720
#78. Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #1116385
#79. There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the light of the spirit who is confident and courageous because she is virtuous.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #1160412
#80. I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine's Quotes #1185064
#81. That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #1226841
#82. Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine's Quotes #1244280
#83. You can show your daughter by the way you love and honor your wife that she should never settle for less.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #1265604
#84. The most impressive person I've ever met? Elaine Wynn is no slouch. She's a much better person than me. But I've got her. Finders keepers, losers weepers. And it's been forty-seven years.

Steve Wynn

Elaine's Quotes #1271737
#85. But his heart had been made as a match for Elaine's, and now it was unable to bear the burden which hers had been forced to lay down.

T.H. White

Elaine's Quotes #1278501
#86. When they stepped out of the taxi and approached the hotel lobby, she mustered up the courage to take Nick's hand. He quickly let go, frowning at her. "I thought we were supposed to be married," she said, a little hurt. "We are. Five years, Elaine. No married couple holds hands after five years.

Mike Wells

Elaine's Quotes #1336036
#87. The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #1342917
#88. 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

Elaine's Quotes #1362443
#89. But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #1374304
#90. Our parts matter because we matter.

Elaine S. Dalton

Elaine's Quotes #1385770
#91. I don't know what to do with Warren Beatty. All I know is that he wasn't attracted to me. That's all right.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #1403289
#92. As an extension of Christ in the lives of his children is the only trend enough for a woman's precious energies.

Elaine A. Cannon

Elaine's Quotes #1420873
#93. (It's worth noting that the traditional Irish phrase to wish someone well, "Top o' the morning to you," has its origin in the dairy world; "the top" refers to the richest, loveliest part, as cream is at the top of milk.)

Elaine Khosrova

Elaine's Quotes #1444435
#94. I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine's Quotes #1457101
#95. I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #1480247
#96. There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #1486352
#97. I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #1504289
#98. It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

Elaine Dundy

Elaine's Quotes #1506490
#99. It's very disconcerting to start out and to say, "I'm going to tell the truth," and then to realize it's that much trouble.

Elaine Stritch

Elaine's Quotes #1515401
#100. The prophets Hosea, Isaiah, and Jeremiah, for example, often used the metaphors of adultery and prostitution to indict those they accused of being "unfaithful" to God's covenant.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine's Quotes #1515893

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