Elske Rotteveel Quotes

#1. In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. Lola wondered how much time the woman had spent trying to outrun cute and reach pretty before she embraced who she was and made a fucking killing. Lola

Melissa Scrivner Love

#3. I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.

Jackie Evancho

#4. We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

Dave Haywood

#5. You yourself are the Teacher, and the Pupil, you're the Master, you're the Guru, you are the Leader, you are Everything! And, to understand, is to transform what Is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#6. People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.

Danielle Trussoni

#7. He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that."
"Thank you," she said.
"As good as a man's," he added.
"Oh, now you've spoiled it!

Earl Derr Biggers

#8. Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.

Patricia Richardson

#10. Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Eugenio Montale

#11. I love seeing guys on the worst possible day and watching them scramble.

Duane Swierczynski