Elverum Quotes

#1. Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant.

Thomas Fuller

#2. I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

Arsene Wenger

#3. And this is the end of Elaine Stainless, it seems. I thought I was helping those I'd harmed before, somehow - that I was making amends. I still think that now, if I'm honest. It's not like there's anything else I can do. Your backstory always gets you in the end.

Jason Heller

#4. I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made.

Nick Denton

#5. If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself ... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

Wendell Berry

#6. Turns out ovaries work just as good as balls when you're in the driver's seat.

Reece Butler

#7. Coming out of a dream or a book, the real world is such a deceptive and essentially miserable place.

Phil Elverum

#8. Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

Jim Capaldi

#10. Cirque du Soleil means Circus of the Sun. When I need to take time to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of 'Soleil' came from, on a beach in Hawaii, and because the sun is the symbol of youth and energy.

Guy Laliberte

#11. There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#12. And the thing about threats is that most of them are empty, nothing more than smoke in the breeze.

Collin Henderson

#13. I think the last album I bought was a very beautiful album called 'Lost Wisdom' by Mount Eerie featuring Julie Doiron, and I bought it direct from Phil Elverum via his website. It's cool you can do that now with the Internet.

Withered Hand