Elleke Frijters Quotes

#1. There was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose around her ankles.

Jen Frederick

#2. Look, I'm the DD tonight, but I'm offering to be more than just your driver. I'll be your bodyguard, and your bartender, and most importantly, your friend. I promise to look out for you tonight, Wellsy.

Elle Kennedy

#3. Successful cultures are those that excel in reproducing their memes, irrespective of the costs and benefits to their human hosts.

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

Etienne Gilson

#5. Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, by Charles Piazzi Smith, published in 1864,

Erich Von Daniken

#6. She was a scrap of a widow, ever so plucky, just back from China, with damp little hands, a husky voice, and defective tear-ducts that gave her eyes always rather a swimmy look. She had a prostrated way of looking up at you, and that fluffy, bird's-nesty hair that hairpins get lost in.

Elizabeth Bowen

#7. We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

Michael Graves

#8. We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

Jean De La Bruyere

#9. Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to completion. It is an imbalance of energy that is in the process of becoming balanced.

Gary Zukav

#10. The most alive is the wildest.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Warren Bennis

#12. One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

Whitfield Diffie

#13. What are you doing here?
Just trying to find my story.

Brandi Laplante

#14. Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured! ... What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam