Kay Thompsons Eloise Quotes

#1. Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.

James Jones

#2. True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did.

Joan Bauer

#4. Be happy while you are looking for happiness because our purpose of life is to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#5. She exists in me now, just as I will and already do within my grandchildren. No one ever truly dies. The desires of our hearts make a path. We create legacy with our thoughts and dreams.

Joy Harjo

#6. In a situation of occupation or domination, the occupier, the dominant power, has to justify what it's doing. There is only one way to do it - become a racist. You have to blame the victim. Once you become a raving racist in self-defense, you've lost your capacity to understand what's happening.

Noam Chomsky

#7. A day without laughing is a day wasted

Charlie Chaplin

#8. Thing is,' Sis confided, 'all the important people here look ordinary and the really fancy ones are usually broke or on the make. I'll tell you, you're in an upside-down world now,' she said, shaking her head. 'Takes a while, but you'll get used to it.

Kathleen Tessaro

#9. How difficult it is to find a good name for a function is a good indication of how clear a concept it is that

Marijn Haverbeke

#10. It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.

Jane Poynter

#11. When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic spiral.

Mary Crocker Cook