Elsa Lanchester Quotes

#1. On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again ... on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

Isaac Asimov

#2. I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

Elsa Lanchester

#3. A dream without ambition is like a car without gas ... you're not going anywhere.

Sean Hampton

#4. Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

Elsa Lanchester

#5. One should never despair too soon.

Frederick The Great

#6. No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

Walter Scott

#7. Where music thundered let the mind be still,
Where the will triumphed let there be no will,
What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.

May Sarton

#8. She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

Elsa Lanchester

#9. She refused to let him bury his guilt in her. She would not be a burying place for any man again.

Brit Bennett

#10. Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

Camille Paglia

#11. I'm hoping for a broadsword," Patrick said, crossing his fingers. "We can go all Game of Thrones on Arkansas." "I've always hated Arkansas," Ben considered. "We all do, Ben. We all hate Arkansas.

Clayton Smith

#12. Young people are not tabulae rasae. They have a sense of right and wrong. But if they're repeatedly exposed to certain themes, they are more likely to pick them up, to internalize them and have them become part of their sexual scripts.

Peggy Orenstein

#13. There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips.

Elsa Lanchester

#14. I need to be able to engage people; that's where I flourish.

Jake Clemons