Top 100 Eleanor's Quotes
#1. Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting.
When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.
Rainbow Rowell
#2. Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.'
My thoughts exactly.
Maggie Stiefvater
#3. Don't be so afraid all the time," she said and reached out to touch Eleanor's cheek with one finger. "We never know where our courage is coming from.
Shirley Jackson
#4. But I'll tell you what I do wish. Wish we could live twice, take a different path each time. That at the end of all this, when I finished serving God in the West, I could go back to that day on the beach, put a ring on Eleanor's finger instead.
Blake Crouch
#5. His grandparents had a light on, on their front porch, and Eleanor's face caught every bit of it. She looked like she should be married to the man in the moon.
Rainbow Rowell
#6. In a contest of wills between John and his mother, he did not think John would prevail, indeed he hoped he would not. But he did not care to be a witness to their confrontation; he suspected Eleanor's methods would be neither maternal nor merciful.
Sharon Kay Penman
#7. Adam's lineage came through one of Eleanor's husbands - Seth's father,
S.M. Reine
#8. Eleanor's eyes widened at the sight of the man.
"I love that reaction." He pointed at Eleanor's face. "That is the 'you didn't tell me how pretty he was look, oui?
Tiffany Reisz
#9. You know,' Mrs Dunne said, 'you can come use my phone whenever you need to,' She stood up and sat on the edge of her desk, resting her hand on Eleanor's knee. Eleanor was this close to asking for a toothbrush, but she thought that would lead to a marathon of hugging and knee-rubbing.
Rainbow Rowell
#10. Eleanor's greatest grievance was not a simpering lass with flaxen hair and smooth skin. It was Aquitaine, always Aquitaine.
Sharon Kay Penman
#11. It made sense that Tina was in Eleanor's gym class
because gym was an extension of hell, and Tina was definetly a demon.
Rainbow Rowell
#12. Gentle reader, did you ever feel yourself snubbed? Did you ever, when thinking much of your own importance, find yourself suddenly reduced to a nonentity? Such was Eleanor's feeling now.
Anthony Trollope
#13. Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her.
The first time he touched her hand, he'd known.
Rainbow Rowell
#14. Eleanor knew that she was fat, but she didn't feel that fat. She could feel her bones and muscles just underneath all the chub, and they were big, too. Park's mom could wear Eleanor's rib cage like a roomy vest.
Rainbow Rowell
#15. To say that anything was a quotation was an excellent method, in Eleanor's eyes, for withdrawing it from discussion,
Saki
#16. Her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.
Not a princess - princesses are just pretty. Eleanor's mother was beautiful.
Rainbow Rowell
#17. He comes, so I must go. But be bold. He is your husband, no? The worst he can do is wound your pride," she pointed to Eleanor's chest. " he cannot hurt your heart unless you let him
Sabrina Jeffries
#18. Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.
Rainbow Rowell
#19. What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#20. It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her early childhood, when it seemed to be summer all the time; she could not remember a winter before father's death on a cold wet day.
Shirley Jackson
#21. A fellow's a fool when he marries who don't go to work deliberately to study and understand his wife. Women are awfully understandable if you only go at it right.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#22. It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.
Eleanor Smeal
#23. I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#24. It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually.
Rainbow Rowell
#25. It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#26. I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.
Eleanor Catton
#27. Miss Volker," I said about as politely as I knew how, "do you think you will outlast the rest of these original people?" "I have to," she said. "I made a promise to Eleanor Roosevelt to see them to their graves, and I can't drop dead on the job - so let's get going.
Jack Gantos
#28. It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once did I imagine myself in it. It's just phenomenal. Words just can't really describe it. It brings the biggest smile to my face.
Eleanor Tomlinson
#29. Oh, well," yawned Vernon, "we all know that it's you Christians who go in for whips and tortures and burnings alive. Poor degraded sensualists like myself believe in the motto 'Live and let live.
Eleanor Scott
#30. If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#31. Man ought never to trust another man's evaluation of a third man's disposition. For human temperament was a volatile compound of perception and circumstance;
Eleanor Catton
#32. The Internet is not a place. It's a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.
Eleanor Antin
#33. It's what inside that counts, she reasoned defiantly. Love conquers all: even mismatched outfits and saggy jumpers.
Eleanor Prescott
#34. I can't walk five steps without someone on a walkie talkie going, 'She's wandering over there.' I'm pretty stuck, but hey, it's been great.
Eleanor Tomlinson
#35. It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#36. I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.
Eleanor Catton
#37. Yes, you'd make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That's what every man wants in a wife - a vaguely alcoholic, fornicating thief.
Eleanor Brown
#38. Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.
Rachel Holmes
#40. Your father is a piece of work," her mother said. "Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces." Pick up, sweep aside - same difference in her mom's world. Eleanor didn't argue.
Rainbow Rowell
#41. It'll be just lovely for you to play
it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
Eleanor Porter
#42. I'm going to join that dating agency it's going to open me up to new people; widen my horizons'
'you mean lower your standards and get you dating retards!
Eleanor Prescott
#43. Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)
Rainbow Rowell
#44. You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
Eleanor Clift
#45. 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
#46. The time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day
!
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#47. Stop thinking you're doing it all wrong. Your path doesn't look like anybody else's because it can't, it shouldn't, and it won't.
Eleanor Brownn
#48. You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#49. A lucky man, I've always said, is a man who was lucky once, and after that, he learned a thing or two about investment. Luck only happens once and it's always an accident when it does. (Dick Mannering
19th century New Zealand goldfields magnate)
Eleanor Catton
#50. Round here, everybody's always talking about home,' said Balfour. 'Can't help but think that the pleasure's in the missing.
Eleanor Catton
#51. Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.
Eleanor Smeal
#52. I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret adults keep from you? That you never feel like a grown-up?
Eleanor Brown
#53. An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience.
Eleanor Brownn
#54. You can't tell from looking at a man what he's capable of doing. And you certainly can't tell what he's done.
Eleanor Catton
#55. If I am dead, well, then there's somethin' 'bout you, Eleanor, that's makin' me feel like I'm still alive.
Tabitha Freeman
#56. Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.
Eleanor Smeal
#57. A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.
Eleanor Catton
#58. So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#59. It must have been unpleasant to be discussed as a curiosity, spoken about over breakfast, and between rounds at billiards, as if one's soul were a common property.
Eleanor Catton
#60. it's hard to remember that the outside and the inside of people are two very different things.
Eleanor Moran
#61. A little more than he bargained for, perhaps," said Dick Mannering. "It's always that - when it's the truth," replied Balfour.
Eleanor Catton
#62. If there's - one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing 'improbable' because it happens to be outside his own special, puny experience of life.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#63. The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
Patty Duke
#64. It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
Eleanor Catton
#65. It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.
Eleanor Coppola
#66. Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
Eleanor Clift
#67. When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.
Lauren Willig
#68. Happiness is not a goal ... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#69. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#71. Praise with elation
Praise every morning
Spring's re-creation
Of the First Day!
Eleanor Farjeon
#72. His two great loves were hard work and hard work's reward - whiskey, when he could get it, and gin when he could not.
Eleanor Catton
#73. Jude's desire for girls was indiscriminate feverish and complete he wanted them all equally and he wanted them not at all. Blondes and brunettes big ones or small ones - they were cold fragile impenetrable creatures all desirable as they were undesirable all perfumed and pretty.
Eleanor Henderson
#74. A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#75. All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#76. The library drew Bean down the street, as it had drawn all of us over the years. Our parents had trained us to become readers, and the town's library had been the one place, other than church, that we visited every week.
Eleanor Brown
#77. I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#78. There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.
Eleanor Smeal
#80. I like fashion. I like being in shape. I like to look nice and I like to make money, but I don't think that's the most, No. 1, important thing.
Eleanor Mondale
#81. Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.
Eleanor Clark
#82. I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.
Eleanor Smeal
#84. We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.
Eleanor Smeal
#86. What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.
Eleanor Catton
#87. A lot of people have a particular song that, no matter their mood, turns them on. With me, it's Eleanor Rigby.
Dana Gould
#88. The storm was borne on greenish winds. It began as a coppery taste in the back of one's mouth, a metallic ache that amplified as the clouds darkened and advanced, and when it struck, it was with the flat hand of a senseless fury.
Eleanor Catton
#89. If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.
Eleanor Clift
#90. Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.
Eleanor Catton
#91. I watched my friend Eleanor give birth," she said. "Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's not much more than a reconstituted ham and cheese sandwich. Just a little anagram of you and what you've been eating for nine months.
Lorrie Moore
#92. I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
Eleanor Antin
#93. There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.
Eleanor Farjeon
#94. Many family planning clinics and - and programs that service women have refused now to take women's - United State's money because they feel that it would be unethical, and it could injure their clients even more, their patients even more. That has to be changed.
Eleanor Smeal
#95. Provide for her Future - if you can! - That's my motto! - But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#96. When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.
Gore Vidal
#97. His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the future and profoundly regretful of the world's decay.
Eleanor Catton
#98. Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#99. I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
Eleanor Catton
#100. It's our last chance.
No. No, I can't ... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance ... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.
Rainbow Rowell
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