Eles's Quotes

#1. Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

Will Rogers

#2. The root of prayer is interior silence.

Thomas Keating

#3. As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump on the personal essay bus or linger back at the station, hoping that some other heretofore unknown mode of transportation was going to magically show up to take me where I wanted to go.

John D'Agata

#4. Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.

Jen Lancaster

#5. He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

Neil Gaiman

#6. If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

John Keats

#7. It's a quantum physics concept where everything that can happen, is happening, in an infinite number of parallel universes.

Maria Semple

#8. (B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you?
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#9. Even things that are true can be proved.

Oscar Wilde

#10. It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

Tom Sutcliffe

#11. He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.

Bruce Forsyth

#12. Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer... If one of those bottles should happen to fall, there'd be how many bottles of beer on the wall?

Lesley Kagen

#13. Memories wasn't a place, memories was in the mind.

Ernest J. Gaines

#14. Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches a great age, there will be calls for a Retrospective Exhibition of a life's work.

Keith Shackleton

#15. The period before something learns to be afraid is the most dangerous of all, because it is then the creatures are the most vulnerable.

Helen Humphreys

#16. But just as soon as fear hits, I smell him, his signature aroma, his musky cologne, and I feel ... relief. Relief because he is the devil I know.

Nina G. Jones