Mountstuart Elphinstone Quotes

#1. When I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.

Virginia Woolf

#2. To Beth>> Your meet-cute would have gone like this, "Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!" / "Sorry, I have a boyfriend." Also, I feel like I should point out that it was freezing rain. Freezing rain isn't cute.

Rainbow Rowell

#3. I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

Jimmy Dean

#4. You never run into a fundamentalist Christian as intolerant of - take anything, you know, homosexuality as a liberal who has just found a lit cigarette in a nonsmoking section.

Ann Coulter

#5. The silence after a felled tree has fallen is like the silence immediately after a death. The same sense of culmination.

John Berger

#6. I don't think you necessarily need to show off your stomach and boobs to be sexy. I'm just not attracted to that type of dressing.

Ashley Olsen

#7. Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

John Ashbery

#8. Christian submitted to the roll of his eyes, the churn of his stomach, the break in his knees. He willingly fell out of consciousness, surrendering his heart to the blackness. She was gone. He was gone. Life on earth didn't matter anymore.

Allie Burke

#9. Imagine if fire extinguishers were full
of snow. Imagine the fun we could have.

Neil Hilborn

#10. Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

Charles Kuralt

#11. I thought about my mother, and the words she said to me almost a lifetime ago. That's when it clicked: she had asked me not to settle, to fight for the person I loved, and for the first time, I did what she expected of me. I had finally lived up to who she wanted me to be.

Jamie McGuire