Slightly Elevated Quotes

#1. Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech - a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

Thomas Boswell

#2. Mather lifts a white eyebrow. "You don't have to actually yell, if you don't want to. Slightly elevated whispering would be fine.

Sara Raasch

#3. Study the scriptures and study the mortals who have been most consistently accurate about the most important things. When your freedom and your eternal welfare are at stake, your information best be accurate.

Ezra Taft Benson

#4. It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings.
Alan Bishop

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

Antony Tudor

#6. Cheryl and spiders: It kind of just goes together now.

Cheryl Hayashi

#7. Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you've got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You're a world - everything is hidden in you.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#8. In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Epicurus

#9. Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

Jay Leno

#10. For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Letitia Baldrige

#11. I do not tell her that sometimes it feels like compromising yourself is part of growing up.

Trista Mateer

#12. Trust is the first step to love.

Munshi Premchand

#13. What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Walter Scott

#14. I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?

Beatrice Sparks