Elefanten Quotes & Sayings

Why, the wrong is but a wrong i'th'world; and having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it a right. — William Shakespeare

But her beauty and stillness broke the balance in me. In my small apartment, she kissed me, and the ground opened up, swallowed me, buried me right there in that moment. How many awful poems did I write thinking of her? I know now what she was to me - the first glimpse of a space-bridge, a wormhole, a galactic portal off this bound and blind planet. She had seen other worlds, and she held the lineage of other worlds, spectacularly, in the vessel of her black body. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I was counting my toes" Stebbins said companionably. "They are fabulously good company because they always add up the same way". — Stephen King

Such a beginning presaged nothing good. However, I lost neither courage nor hope. I turned to the consolation of all those in distress, and for the first time tasted the sweetness of prayer, poured forth from a pure but riven heart. I fell asleep serenely, unworried as to what was to become of me. — Alexander Pushkin

The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn. — Austin Kleon

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what ... True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days. — William McNamara

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own. — Plato

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing. — Frank Fairfield

Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest. — J. Paul Getty

Almighty Saviour, thank you for the gift of the moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus ... something like that. — Louis Tomlinson

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city. — Bennie Thompson