Elfontheshelf Quotes & Sayings

Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety.
At any rate that afforded me some comfort. — Milan Kundera

Recycle the body through fire; scatter the remains back into the earth. — Denis Hearn

I love Twitter, you know? I try to read everything I can on Twitter. You get so much nice feedback about stuff, you know you just put out a sentence and everybody laughs or everybody's just sending something back. It's amazing. Same with Facebook, you know? I'm a lot on Facebook and it's just - it's just amazing. And YouTube, of course, as well. — Tiesto

You might find me cleverly clad, in black on black, at 28th and 7th Ave. — Jonathan P. Lamas

I'm going to take care of you. I gotcha. Because that's my job, right? Taking care of my pain in the ass little brother. — Eric Kripke

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science. — James D. Watson

Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do. — Gordon T. Smith

Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women? — Kate Atkinson

Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have ... remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ... from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974. — Frances Moore Lappe

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office. — William Ritter

It's as if the whole house is missing Granny now. Not the people living in it, but the actual building. — Fredrik Backman

Yet I have often noticed since how much less stir nearly everyone's death makes than you might expect. Men better loved and more worth loving than my father go down making only a small eddy. — C.S. Lewis