Elegant Elliot Offen Quotes

#1. She hesitated, aware that an ill-judged phrase might anger Triumvir Hegazi; not that she particularly cared. Dared she call it the Melding Plague, now that the Yellowstoners had given it a name? Perhaps that would be unwise.

Alastair Reynolds

#2. I Failed My Way To Success.

Thomas Edison

#3. The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#4. I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. I do not think a pilgrimage is a proper pilgrimage if you are also using it as an excuse to visit your favourite aunt, or buy silk cheaply to re-sell," she murmured sombrely. "That's just business dressed up in orange robes.

Claire North

#6. The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's when you see that the universe is ecstasy, That's when you experience its ecstasy.

Frederick Lenz

#7. I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Philip G. Zimbardo

#8. We now live in the era of fake consensus, or phoney populism, a condition in which galleries and homes are seen to succeed best where they manage feelings of non-difference.

Andrew O'Hagan

#9. Love is the only memory one never loses, Isaac." His father had said. "Because even if one loses his mind the memory always remains in the heart.

Felix Alexander

#10. All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...

Michael Moorcock

#12. The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

Hilary Mantel

#13. No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#14. If we really explore what we love to do, we can start to see ways to make money doing it.

Elaina Marie