Elusive Friend Quotes

#1. What really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.

Stephen Koch

#2. Time, my elusive friend, just for once can you turn back the clock,
Play back some of my lost moments and some events can you block?

K.S. Khatana

#3. The universe stops and waits for us.

Nicola Yoon

#4. The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelligence. There is nothing mysterious about this:
smart organisms by and large survive better and leave more offspring than stupid ones.

Carl Sagan

#5. Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

#6. We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.

Parul Wadhwa

#7. MERCER USED TO PASS THE TIME, during his post-grad months of flipping burgers out on Route 17, by polishing his opinions on life and literature for that future date when they would grace the pages of The Paris Review.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#8. Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.

David Norman

#9. The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

Erich Auerbach

#10. Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!

Madeleine L'Engle

#11. Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

Will Rogers

#12. Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

Kevin Peter Hall

#13. I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

Steve Case

#14. If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'

William J. Clinton

#15. Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

Robert Breault