Elphaba Thropp Quotes

#1. It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

Jay Asher

#2. You shun your spirit,' he murmured, 'every time you agree to sell your days to the city, to measure out your life at the city's pace.

Martin Amis

#3. Alchemy is glorious, gritty, and gruesome, forcing one to mature spiritually."

-from my weblog posted today on diavirginia

Dia Virginia Rigden

#4. By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.

Tara Brach

#5. BE CALM! And listen to the voices in your head. They promise the next one will be a bestseller.

Dawna Raver

#6. We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

Joan Jett

#7. You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon reaching a goal, to be confident, self-accepting, rooted like an oak tree in your being.

Geneen Roth

#8. Come what may and hell to pay.

Gregory Maguire

#9. Nobody can help you as much as you can help yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Franklin P. Jones

#11. Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.

Gregory Maguire

#12. No one who now competes against Tiger Woods does so without wearing a similar competitive mask. Even as they try to forge ahead and

Glenn Stout

#13. to Tim, she'd always be that

Thomas Wolfenden

#14. Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Henry Fuseli

#15. And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.

Shelby Harris

#16. Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

Gregory Maguire