Elaine Vassal Quotes & Sayings

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there. — Helen Dunmore

If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms. — Mahatma Gandhi

I want to be able to leave behind an infrastructure and a road map for any of my dreamers to follow. So that they can again take care of their family, pursue what they love and live a fulfilling life. Everyone is called, but not everyone answers. I was called, and I answered. — Michelle Phan

I was just that kid in the family that you put on the table and watch it dance around, and you're like, 'Oh, look at that hyper kid!' — Rosa Salazar

The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it. — Elizabeth Banks

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it. — Paulette Goddard

The truth is, the person I've been hating more than anyone is myself. It is so easy. So easy to look in the mirror at all my imperfections and think of all the ways I fall short of someone ... — Hannah Harrington

If you think there's a thing - anything - women didn't do in the past, you're wrong. — Kameron Hurley

Leaving him and going out into the paint-fuming air I had the feeling that I had been talking beyond myself, had used words and expressed attitudes not my own, that I was in the grip of some alien personality lodged deep within me. Like the servant about whom I'd read in psychology class who, during a trance, had recited pages of Greek philosophy which she had overheard one day while she worked. It was as though I were acting out a scene from some crazy movie. Or perhaps I was catching up with myself and had put into words feelings which I had hitherto suppressed. Or was it, I thought, starting up the walk, that I was no longer afraid? I stopped, looking at the buildings down the bright street slanting with sun and shade. I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid. Was that it? I felt light-headed, my ears were ringing. I went on. — Ralph Ellison

It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power. — Narendra Modi