Elitens Quotes & Sayings

Television speeded everything up. — Ruth Handler

Hope is only an extension of time granted to us until we decide to give up. — Michael Mintz

Well, 'explode' maybe isn't the most accurate term. What actually happens is much more interesting. — John Scalzi

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty. — John Dryden

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in. — Thomas Keller

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work. — Tim Dorsey

You can actually program your cells toward better health and fitness. — Mike Rabe

I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If I could teach my children only one thing, it would be the skill of marketing. For with that skill, they could be successful at anything they chose for the rest of their lives. — Howard Ruff

And this brings us to our final type of man: the one who asserts himself out of defiance of his own weakness, who tries to be a god unto himself, the master of his fate, a self-created man. He will not be merely the pawn of others, of society; he will not be a passive sufferer and secret dreamer, nursing his own inner flame in oblivion. He will plunge into life,
into the distractions of great undertakings, he will become a restless spirit ... which wants to forget ... Or he will seek forgetfulness in sensuality, perhaps in debauchery ...
At its extreme, defiant self-creation can become demonic, a passion which Kierkegaard calls "demoniac rage," an attack on all of life for what it has dared to do to one, a revolt against existence itself. — Ernest Becker

Education provide enlightenment for one's life. — Lailah Gifty Akita