Elasticated Cord Quotes

#1. Women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.

Emmuska Orczy

#2. Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.

Dick Van Dyke

#3. Do you know how to hide a dead body?

Chris Grams

#4. I rest in the light of forgiveness.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#5. What an enormous longing for a new human order there was in the era between the world wars, and what a miserable failure to live up to it.'(Arthur Koestler)

Tony Judt

#6. Losing more of our existing nuclear fleet will make it that much tougher to meet our carbon reduction goals. We need to keep ramping up renewables, but they can't meet our need for reliable power 24/7. Nuclear is a baseload source and it's carbon-free - two things we need.

Eileen Claussen

#7. It felt like the most meaningful conversation I had ever had was happening even though no words were exchanged as we looked at each other.

Jay Crownover

#8. I want my cuddly bear back."
I narrowed my eyes. "You're calling me cuddly? I tried to kill you ten minutes ago."
"Stop dwelling on old shit.

Suzanne Wright

#9. I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.

Alwyn Hamilton

#10. I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.

Morgan Freeman

#11. When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory

Mike Krzyzewski

#12. All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic herbals for ceramic cats.

Steven Wright

#13. The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.

Eric Bristow

#14. All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

Jon McGregor

#15. We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it.

Seamus Heaney