Elcherts Quotes & Sayings

Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act. — Joost De Blank

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about. — Suzanne Vega

While the bodies of young children are usually relaxed and flexible, if experiences of fear are continuous over the years, chronic tightening happens. Our shoulders may become permanently knotted and raised, our head thrust forward, our back hunched, our chest sunken. Rather than a temporary reaction to danger, we develop a permanent suit of armor. We become, as Chogyam Trungpa puts it, "a bundle of tense muscles defending our existence." We often don't even recognize this armor because it feels like such a familiar part of who we are. But we can see it in others. And when we are meditating, we can feel it in ourselves - the tightness, the areas where we feel nothing. — Tara Brach

I don't like grocery shopping. It's the same thing over and over every week. I'd like to make enough money, one day, that someone else would do it for me. Do you have to be rich for that? — Maggie Stiefvater

If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It would be something you would intend to keep forever. — Lyle Lovett

When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at. — Joel Chandler Harris