Elisabeth Murdoch Quotes

#1. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.

Jorgen Leth

#3. You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

Kate Del Castillo

#4. Raw. Dirty. Scandalous and oh so delicious.

V. Theia

#5. Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

Elisabeth Murdoch

#6. This virtual stranger knew me better than anyone else in Africa. He knew me better than I knew myself. What I was really researching was not how elephants deal with loss but how humans can't.

Jodi Picoult

#7. Never a horse that can't be rode and never a rider that can't be throwed. (I'll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.)

Earle Gray

#8. When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

Lara Stone

#9. Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.

Elisabeth Murdoch

#10. No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

John Ruskin

#11. Live. Have courage. Be a good friend. Always be grateful.

Amy Harmon

#12. The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal.

Donal Daly

#13. I suppose we ought to be getting home, in any case."

"Oh god, is it wartime already?"

"Look on the bright side: it'll be dinner when we get back.

Chris Cleave

#14. It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.

Elisabeth Murdoch

#15. Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

Jenna Alatari

#16. And whether rich or poor, well or ill, happy or sad, books can be a refuge, they do not change with changing circumstance, they are the open highway to yesterday, today and tomorrow wherever you will to travel.

Gladys Taber

#17. Sometimes, we forget to reflect back on all the great times we had by just ourselves. You can be your own best friend, you know.

Gwendolyn Heasley

#18. Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

Amy Carter

#19. It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

Elisabeth Murdoch