Eliasberg Foundation Quotes & Sayings

What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of." — Gloria Steinem

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. — Iain Duncan Smith

I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if 'The Dying Hours' was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn't I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife? — Mark Billingham

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding. — Larry Hagman

A quote from Sacha Guitry came to mind: 'Watching someone sleep is like reading a letter that is not addressed to you. — Antoine Laurain

His love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. — Tim O'Brien

I don't think Apple has to own a content business. — Tim Cook

Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - ... for discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate. — Margaret Caroline Anderson

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. — Jil Sander

Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Quality for sheep is what the shepherd says. And if you take a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panicked half to death and will call and call until the shepherd comes, or comes the wolf. — Robert M. Pirsig

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect. — Shirley Manson

I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me. — Harvey Pekar

Stephen remained untouched. Instead, the illumination surrounding him strengthened further, as though all light in the chamber was drawn to this one man. Stephen lifted his face toward the chamber's ceiling and cried, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!" These words unleashed both the Council and the mob. The chamber was filled with shrill cries demanding he be condemned to death. — Janette Oke