Elixer Quotes

#1. I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

Everett Ruess

#2. The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#3. Learners are doers, not recipients.

Walter J. Ong

#4. All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself ... and let God be God in you

Meister Eckhart

#5. It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.

Lucinda Williams

#6. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

Jane Austen

#7. The most important questions - "What are you? Where did you come from?" - had a whole range of answers, starting with "I'm the Disreputable Dog" and "from elsewhere" and occasionally becoming as eloquent as "I'm your Dog" and "You tell me - it was your spell.

Garth Nix

#8. If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.

Miroslav Volf

#9. The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

Al Franken

#10. My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

James Salter

#11. You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic energy because you are not focused.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Over the past few days, I've been happily making water. It's been going swimmingly. (See what I did there? "Swimmingly"?)

Andy Weir

#13. Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Eric Hoffer

#14. Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

Thomas W. Higginson

#15. I am a person of action. If I see I can bring a positive change, I will go for it, never mind that something might be hard to achieve.

Dalia Grybauskaite