Elling Quotes

#1. He poured this to the brim with good bourbon (Miss Elling knew it was good bourbon because she had helped herself to a snifter from the flask during his luncheon absence on her third day in his employ) and spent ten minutes sipping the drink.

Matthew Blood

#2. I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem that we put on the sauerkraut boxes in the style of Elling.

Denis O'Hare

#3. When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Vincent Cassel

#4. [Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

Kurt Elling

#5. If we're going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where it is because that's not possible. It has to be to decide what kind of world do we as human beings want to live in.

Richard Lewontin

#6. I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

Benjamin Tucker

#7. The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.

Kurt Elling

#8. The thorny point
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred
And know some nurture.

William Shakespeare

#9. Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?

Wilhelm Grimm

#10. For all that I hate about what I've done, there's one thing I can't regret.
It led me to him.

K.A. Tucker

#11. I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

Jim Caviezel

#12. Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

John Ortberg

#13. I love almonds as a snack, and in the morning, yogurt is a fantastic go-to. Sometimes I mix them together.

Alison Sweeney

#14. Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope.

Mario Puzo

#15. I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that..

Tyler Perry

#16. Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After.

Shannon Hale