Essayist Elia Quotes

#1. I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

John Gordon Sinclair

#2. There's a word the teabaggers have wanted to use since Obama came on the scene, but they can't because it's not the 1950s. They would love to say this word. It begins with an N and ends with -er, and it's not nation-builder.

Bill Maher

#3. And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!"
"No, no!" said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

Georgette Heyer

#4. Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes.

Samuel Beckett

#5. Do you have the heart to push yourself? If you don't, find a way to get it because talent will only get you so far. You've got to be hungry. You've got to have heart. That's just reality.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#6. I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.

Brandon Mull

#7. Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [ ... ] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Iris Murdoch

#8. Don't let them take away our little king, Froi. Not the Avanosh people or Bestiano. I'm begging you, Froi." That she had to speak the words broke something inside of him. "I will protect you," he whispered. "I will never let anything happen to you or our child.

Melina Marchetta