Elzar Mann Quotes

#1. BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.

Fay Weldon

#3. It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Louis Sachar

#4. They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go on, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.

Alan Bennett

#5. Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

Paul Henderson

#6. When I am old, I shall wear purple

Jenny Joseph

#7. A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

John Singer Sargent

#8. What have I told you about trying to sound ingratiatingly cute, Twyla?" she said. The little girl said, "You said I mustn't. You said that exaggerated lisping is a hanging offense and I only do it to get attention.

Terry Pratchett

#9. The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain;

William Shakespeare

#10. In his old life, the answer would have been easy: He'd have just put a gun to Vin's head and dragged the fucker to the altar. Now? He needed to be a little more civilized.

J.R. Ward