Elroy Quotes

#1. My first TV crush was Elroy Jetson, because he was so cute. And I wanted to play with Astro on his automatic dog-walker thing.

Alyson Hannigan

#2. My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

Edward Abbey

#3. I can write about all of these bizarre and funny characters in my book, "Diggin' Elroy," because I know them better than anyone else. I have a little bit of all of them in me.

Walt Griffin

#4. You can't bribe me with pie." Before he'd finished the sentence, his stomach grumbled loudly in a plea for the pie.
The men grinned.
"We all know you're a pie ho," Mr. Elroy said.

Jill Shalvis

#5. Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

James Elroy Flecker

#6. Please reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going.

Dov Davidoff

#7. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera. I

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

James Elroy Flecker

#9. I stepped back and looked at all the people as they continued to weave in and out, around and around, faster and faster until they were one blur, until they were One. And then I knew what Bubbe meant. Here, was God.

Han Nolan

#10. I look down the farthest side of the mountain,
fulfilled and understanding all,
and truly content that
I lived a full life and one
that was my own choice

James Elroy Flecker

#11. We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital

Muhammadu Buhari

#12. Do not try and argue the quality of literature to me," Notak said, inflectionless. "You will lose.

S.G. Night

#13. And we are so fragile,and our cracking nones make noise, and we are just breakable, breable, breakable girls

Ingrid Michaelson

#14. Half?" Ceony asked. "How do you have half of an apprentice?

Charlie N. Holmberg

#15. When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll that calm Sunday that goes on and on:When even lovers find their peace at last,And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.

James Elroy Flecker

#16. I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

James Elroy Flecker

#17. A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

James Elroy Flecker

#18. And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

James Elroy Flecker

#19. Competition is used for discrimination. Harmony makes everything perfect.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#20. Risk means that more things could happen that will happen

Elroy Dimson

#21. The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

James Elroy Flecker

#22. For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

James Elroy Flecker

#23. The Latin names of plants blur like belief.

Carol Ann Duffy

#24. But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?

James Elroy Flecker

#25. I do not think that less is necessarily more. But I don't think that more is necessarily more either. - Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid

#26. Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.

James Elroy Flecker

#27. We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

James Elroy Flecker

#28. Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing. Have you heard
That silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird?

James Elroy Flecker

#29. The truth seems to love the small print.

James O'Shaughnessy

#30. One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

Gale Harold

#31. We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

James Elroy Flecker

#32. We travel not for trafficking alone;
By hotter winds our hearts are fanned:
For lust of knowing what should not be known
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

James Elroy Flecker

#33. Risk means more things can happen than will happen.

Elroy Dimson

#34. I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I am. The majority of them are sweet about it, but occasionally somebody weird becomes totally fixated upon me.

Teena Marie