Elizabeth Laird Quotes

#1. There's a funny thing I've noticed about life. When you really dread something, it turns out not to be so bad. It's the unexpected awful things that get you down.

Elizabeth Laird

#2. What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

William Gaddis

#3. It was a little boy looking lost among a bunch of kneecaps.

Mary Crockett

#4. In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

Luc De Clapiers

#6. Cotton balls is an example of something I would buy, but not want to have as a nickname. Cinnamon buns, on the other hand, is something I would buy and want to have as a nickname. 'Are you Cinnamon Buns?' 'You bet your sweet ass I am.'

Demetri Martin

#7. The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

Pope John Paul II

#8. On my iPhone 3GS, I use 'Instagram', 'Twitter' and 'Touch'.

Jan Koum

#9. Be as vigilantly on guard against translating such a sentence into the passive voice as you would against committing murder.

Jay Rubin

#10. Every man's life is a plan of God.

Horace Bushnell