Elles Quotes & Sayings

Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo
... Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage. — M.R. James

Though Plente that is goddesse of rychesses hielde adoun with ful horn, and withdraweth nat hir hand, as many richesses as the see torneth upward sandes whan it is moeved with ravysshynge blastes, or elles as manye rychesses as ther schynen bryghte sterres in hevene on the sterry nyghtes; yit, for al that, mankende nolde nat cese to wepe wrecchide pleyntes. And al be it so that God resceyveth gladly hir preiers, and yyveth hem, as fool-large, moche gold, and apparayleth coveytous folk with noble or cleer honours; yit semeth hem haven igeten nothyng, but alwey hir cruel ravyne, devourynge al that they han geten, scheweth othere gapynges (that is to seyn, gapyn and desiren yit after mo rychesses.) What brydles myghte withholden to any certeyn ende the disordene covetise of men, whan evere the rather that it fletith in large yiftes, the more ay brenneth in hem the thurst of havynge? Certes he that qwakynge and dredful weneth hymselven nedy, he ne lyveth nevermo ryche. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,
And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,
Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair,
And take youre aventure of the repair
That shal be to youre hous by cause of me,
Or in som oother place, may wel be.
Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?' — Ellen Ochoa

You are what you love not who loves you
- Fall Out Boy — Fall Out Boy

So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less? — Daria Snadowsky

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes. — Michael Ealy

I said, Allah wouldn't test us on whether we condemn somebody who became pregnant outside of marriage; He would test us on our hospitality and charity. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love. — George Herbert

Of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun ... Til that myn herte dye ... That wel by reson men hit calle may The 'dayesye' or elles the 'ye of day,' The emperice and flour of floures alle. I pray to god that faire mot she falle, And alle that loven floures, for hir sake! — Geoffrey Chaucer

People are going to singlel you out, so you might as well give them something to look at.
-Sadie Kane — Rick Riordan

When one is different, the answers have to come from within. — Damian Maher

Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble. — Tupac Shakur

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. — George Bernard Shaw

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life — Paul Theroux

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out. — Aristotle.

Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses. — Simone De Beauvoir

Roger Webb shared this testimony on Facebook about how some — Praying Medic

Memories are less tangible than dreams. — Isadora Duncan