Eleanor Oliphant Quotes

#1. Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

Glen Cook

#2. Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.

Gail Honeyman

#4. Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

Keith Jarrett

#5. I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

Martha Stewart

#6. The gilded confines of the Beauty Hall were not my preferred habitat; like the chicken that had laid the eggs for my sandwich, I was more of a free-range creature.

Gail Honeyman

#7. I pondered what else I should take for him. Flowers seemed wrong; they're a love token, after all. I looked in the fridge, and popped a packet of cheese slices into the bag. All men like cheese.

Gail Honeyman

#8. I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

Al Yankovic

#9. Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

Nick Harkaway

#10. I've been so afraid to dance in front of people, so now I make it a point to confront my fears and chase my demons.

Robin S. Sharma

#11. People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

Peter Yarrow

#12. The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Arthur Erickson

#13. Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Honore De Balzac

#14. Love is too weak a word for what I feel - I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes.

Woody Allen

#15. I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

Deborah Tall

#16. I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)

Gail Honeyman

#17. On a deep almost preconscious level we know, not with our minds but deep in our hearts the truth of the words, love never ends.

Genevieve Gerard

#18. Time as hunger.
Time passing and gazing.
Time as perseverance.
Mountain time.
Time as paper folded to look like a mountain.
Time compared to the wild fantastic silence of stars.

Anne Carson