Elland Quotes & Sayings

Are you able to proclaim that you have been through some things and you survived it? You are a survivor. And if you are a survivor you are not a victim. You have to change the language that you give to yourself and then you have to change the conversation that you give to others. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad. — Evgeny Morozov

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. — Chuck Palahniuk

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. — Bernard Emond

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly! — Jan Theuninck

Let me ask you a question. How long is too long to text someone back? My wife still thinks I died in 9/11. — Frankie Boyle

I will seek out a face, a composed, a monumental face, and will endow it with omniscience, and wear it under my dress like a talisman and then (I promise this) I will find some dingle in a wood where I can display my assortment of strange, valuable objects. I promise myself this. So I will not cry.
-Virginia Woolf, The Waves — Virginia Woolf

Keep moving; keep moving, no matter how slow you move, you must keep moving. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get healthy, or he gets sick. That sort of encourages him to do his best. — David Eddings

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio. — Al Jarreau

Example is leadership. — Albert Schweitzer

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others. — Richard E. Grant

And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste. — George Carlin