Elwood P Quotes

#1. In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
~Elwood P. Dowd

Mary Chase

#2. Plot is character in action.

Maren Elwood

#3. The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.

Sarah Brady

#4. Colonel Fitzwilliam's manners were very much admired at the Parsonage, and the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasures of their engagements at Rosings. It was some days, however, before they received any invitation thither - for while there

Jane Austen

#5. Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do.

Lois Aileen Bey

#6. We become the people who are made by our family and society when we are ignorant of who we are

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.

Liz Murray

#8. I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike.

Rob Morrow

#9. The people we see do not seem to be as happy as we are. They look like they are sad, and in a hurry. They all look down at their phones and do not talk to each other.

Paul Nelson

#10. Elwood- "It's a 106 miles to Chicago,
We got a full tank o' gas,
half a pack of cigarettes,
it's dark,
and we're wearing sunglasses."
Jake- "Hit it.

Blues Brothers

#11. No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment ... Now.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

Mary Chase

#13. All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

Maren Elwood

#14. And angle of vision, dust, gravity, solitude,
and the part of the law which is the world's waiting
and the part of the law which is my waiting,
and the part which is my impatience - now; now?
though there are, there really are
things in the world, you must believe me.

Jorie Graham

#15. It's like Elwood Blues says: everybody needs somebody to love. I'm an everybody. I get a somebody.

Heidi Cullinan

#16. The impact movies make on us are affected by when we watch it, who we see it with, and where we are in our lives at the moment.
- Suzy Nakamura

Graham Elwood

#17. The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!

W.C. Fields

#18. One day, you'll fall for somebody. At first, you'll fight it, because you won't understand. But when you do, Tess, you'll know that he's the one
the one you would die for.

Jalpa Williby

#19. I've been all over the world, and to be in Milan and see guys dressed as Jake and Elwood is amazing. They really have become a part of the culture.

John Landis

#20. The only thing we should scream into the world is love.

Jill Telford

#21. Elwood had thoughtfully fed Patrick. There was a clean-licked plate on the kitchen tile. Patrick was curled up before a gas fireplace, though there was no fire.

Michael Grant

#22. Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

Maren Elwood