Top 100 Quotes About Elsa
#1. Mum looks hesitant. As mums get when they are accustomed to being able to predict their daughters' questions, and then suddenly find they were wrong about that. Elsa shrugs.
Fredrik Backman
#2. When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out because I actually did ballet years ago. That definitely informed some of the ways I made her walk and move.
Georgina Haig
#3. Don't people get married because they're full of love and then divorced when they run out of it?" (Elsa)
"Did you learn that one in school?" (Mom)
"It's my own theory." (Elsa)
Fredrik Backman
#4. My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN.
Erdem Moralioglu
#5. Elsa heard one of the doctors at Mum's hospital saying that Granny "could start a fight in an empty room," but when Elsa told Granny she just looked miffed and said, "What if it was the room that started it?
Fredrik Backman
#7. I start to run down the hill, but did I mention I can't feel my feet? They slip out from under me. I tumble head over heels, down, down, down until I splash into a stream. The icy water soaks through my clothes and bites into my skin. Why couldn't Elsa have had warm magical powers?
Elise Allen
#8. I feel Elsa's arms around me. I can hear her crying. That's weird for a lot of reasons. Elsa doesn't cry, and she never puts her arms around me.
Elise Allen
#10. Because it was Granny who had told Elsa about the Christmas tree dance in Miamas, and no one who's heard that story wants to have a spruce tree that someone has amputated and sold into slavery. In
Fredrik Backman
#11. I don't want Elsa to know that I am going to die because all seven-year-olds deserve superheroes, Marcel. And one of their superpowers ought to be that they can't get cancer.
Fredrik Backman
#12. and grabbed Great Aunt Elsa and my passport. I stood in
Victoria Twead
#14. Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You'd quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits.
Fredrik Backman
#15. People have to tell their stories, Elsa. Or they suffocate.
Fredrik Backman
#16. Elsa learned all about LPs and CDs that afternoon. That was when she worked out why old people seem to have so much free time, because in the olden days until Spotify came along they must have used up almost all their time just changing the track. She
Fredrik Backman
#17. Elsa sobs as she unfolds it, the way one sobs when the tears have run out but not the crying.
Fredrik Backman
#18. My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.
Joan Collins
#19. People of Granny's age describe Wikipedia as 'an encyclopaedia, but on the net!' Encyclopaedias are what Elsa describes as 'Wikipedia, but analogue.
Fredrik Backman
#20. As the story goes, Albert Einstein's wife Elsa remarked, upon hearing that a telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory was needed to determine the shape of space-time: Oh, my husband does this on the back of an old envelope.
Edward Frenkel
#21. Granny said there was a law about having to eat Pizza at Christmas. Granny was full of nonsense, of course, but [Elsa] went along with it because she likes pizza. And Christmas food kind of sucks if you are a vegetarian.
Fredrik Backman
#22. Jean was definitely the girl who mattered, despite her queer ideas and queerer friends. He had no intention of totally abandoning Naomi or Joy or Elsa or - what was her name? - Denise; but the time had come for something more permanent.
Arthur C. Clarke
#23. Elsa had looked back at the girl in the only way one can look back at someone who has just pointed at a Gryffindor scarf and said, "Ugly bloody scarf." Not totally dissimilar to how one would look at someone who had just seen a horse and gaily burst out, "Crocodile!
Fredrik Backman
#24. I've been following Elsa, but I can't see Arendelle anymore.
Elise Allen
#25. Lucille," Norma Jean whispered loud enough for me to hear from my foliage hideout. She leaned over her walker and adjusted her glasses. "Is that Willis Harvey up front by Elsa?"
"Well, pinch my pooch, I believe it is," Lucille said. "I barely recognize him with his clothes on.
Ann Charles
#26. You don't get to choose your siblings,' mutters Alf. Elsa
Fredrik Backman
#27. Mom puts her hand on Elsa's hand, and inhales deeply from the point where they are touching, as if trying to fill her lungs with Elsa. As mums do with daughters who grow up too fast.
Fredrik Backman
#28. It's hard to help those who don't want to help themselves."
"Someone who wants to help himself is possibly not the one who most needs help from others," Elsa objects.
Fredrik Backman
#29. So many hearts broke the day Elsa was born. Shattered with such force by the wave that the shards of the glass were dispersed all around the world. Improbable catastrophes produce improbable things in people, improbable sorrow and improbable heroism.
Fredrik Backman
#30. Elsa is the sort of child who learned early in life that it's easier to make your way if you get to choose your own soundtrack.
Fredrik Backman
#31. It's easier to get people talking about things they dislike than things they like, Elsa has noticed. And it's easier not to get frightened of shadows in the dark
Fredrik Backman
#32. But Granny was the sort of person you brought with you when you went to war, and that was what Elsa loved about her.
Fredrik Backman
#33. Granny says they're soft in the head, but Elsa just thinks they're nice. And they always have dreams and hugs - dreams are a kind of biscuit; hugs are just normal hugs.
Fredrik Backman
#34. Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things.
Fredrik Backman
#35. It was a Saturday and Granny and Elsa were going to an exhibition about dinosaurs. That was the morning Mum put the Gryffindor scarf in the wash without asking and made Elsa take another scarf - a vomit-green one. Mum knows Elsa hates green. She really lacks empathy sometimes, that woman.
Fredrik Backman
#36. I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang.
Elsa Peretti
#37. Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
Elsa Maxwell
#38. Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#39. Having the person that you love by your side and starting a family with them is the best thing that can happen to you in this life. You can't ask for more.
Elsa Pataky
#40. I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot!
Elsa Morante
#41. I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
Elsa Maxwell
#42. Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Elsa Maxwell
#45. I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.
Elsa Lanchester
#46. There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within
the beyond
the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.
Elsa Barker
#47. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#49. Most of the time, I'm in the country, and the jewelry I wear I can wear in the country.
Elsa Peretti
#50. Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell
#51. People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.
Elsa Peretti
#52. A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.
Elsa Peretti
#53. I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it,
Elsa Peretti
#54. I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.
Elsa Peretti
#56. I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.
Elsa Peretti
#57. The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#58. When my guy finished his beer, he crushed it in his hand and threw it on the floor.
Elsa Day
#59. have a good selection for your consideration.
Elsa Holland
#60. Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.
Elsa Triolet
#61. The wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.
Elsa Maxwell
#62. I don't have the feeling that I need to add a lot to my collection, because I have an incredibly wide range of things. This is a part of the secret of my things, that they are still valid. When I feel a need, I do something more.
Elsa Peretti
#63. A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#64. Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
Elsa Maxwell
#65. It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her.
Fredrik Backman
#66. Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money.
Elsa Bakalar
#67. Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend ... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.
Elsa Peretti
#69. It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality ... We've only one life to live.
Agatha Christie
#70. The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.
Elsa Barker
#71. Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.
Elsa Lanchester
#72. Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
Elsa Maxwell
#73. In the '80s, everything became too serious.
Elsa Peretti
#74. I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.
Elsa Peretti
#75. Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else.
Fredrik Backman
#76. I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.
Elsa Peretti
#77. Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.
Elsa Maxwell
#78. The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.
Elsa Peretti
#79. [On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night ...
Elsa Maxwell
#80. I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.
Elsa Triolet
#81. [On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.
Elsa Einstein
#82. When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.
Elsa Barker
#83. I think I always have the same style. But if I see a trend long enough, I might catch on to it. But it has to be around for a while for me to warm up to it.
Elsa Hosk
#84. Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.
Elsa Peretti
#85. Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Elsa Maxwell
#86. I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.
Elsa Peretti
#87. Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.
Elsa Barker
#88. Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#89. Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#90. But he still loved real books.
Elsa Jade
#91. She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.
Elsa Lanchester
#92. Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#93. Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.
Elsa Barker
#94. To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
Elsa Triolet
#95. Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#96. What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.
Elsa Peretti
#97. [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.
Elsa Maxwell
#98. He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.
Elsa Barker
#99. A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
Elsa Peretti
#100. For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily.
Elsa Peretti
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