Community Elroy Quotes & Sayings

The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers. — Malala Yousafzai

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. — Alan Tudyk

Only bad writers think they're good. — Harlan Coben

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create. — Aminatta Forna

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away. — Nicole Kidman

If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce. — Johann Lamont

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?' — Bill Nighy

Mama shrieked. The first man turned — Raymond E. Feist

You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature, which I had thought to save for a more difficult day. In the mirror, every night, the same face, a bit more threadbare, a dress worn too long. The moon was out in the cold, along with the restless, dissatisfied wind that seemed to change the location of the sycamores. I expected reproaches because I had mentioned the word love, but you only accused me of stealing your pencil, and sadness disappeared with sense. You made a ceremony out of holding your head in your hands because, you said, it could not be contained in itself. — Rosmarie Waldrop

Pretty soon I heard a twig snap down in the dark amongst the trees - something was a stirring. I set still and listened. Directly I could just barely hear a "me-yow! me-yow!" down there. That was good! Says I, "me-yow! me-yow!" as soft as I could, and then I put out the light and scrambled out of the window on to the shed. Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees, and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me. — Mark Twain