Quotes About Elah

#1. I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax.' And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.

Paul Haggis

#2. History and experience ought to teach us to be suspicious of Goliaths, because the very thing that makes the giant so terrifying is also the source of his weakness. David understood that, as he sized up his opponent long ago in the Valley of Elah. And in a different time and in a very different age,

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. But you seem to forget, my dear, only Daederich's price requires a body attached to the head.-Elah Deadly Captive

Bianca Sommerland

#4. There is a glory in a great mistake.

Nathalia Crane

#5. You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

Aryn Kyle

#6. And if he had to do it all over, he would do it again. In the deepest privacy of his soul, down at the bottom of a well where no one else could hear him, the part of him that had weighed life and death decisions over the last several hundred years took her life and weighed it against all else.

Thea Harrison

#7. She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain; a racer should embrace the rain.

Garth Stein

#8. I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale my own work.

Willard Wigan

#9. Some people do have softer boundaries.

Billie Jean King

#10. A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well.
Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)

Hiromu Arakawa

#11. We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

Cornel West

#12. She walked off to Hurst; and got a good priest there-- one whom she had known at Antwerp-- to write for her. But no answer came. It was like crying into the awful stillness of night.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#13. I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.

Drew Goddard