Elliotte Manor Quotes & Sayings

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words. — Stendhal

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small. — Keith Devlin

I have no idea why hitting people when their backs are turned has such a bad reputation. I've always found it most effective." — Cassandra Gannon

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in. — Dennis Hopper

Maybe you've been there. You go into a police or sheriff's station after a gang of black kids forced you to stop your car while they smashed out your windows with garbage cans; a strung-out addict made you kneel at gunpoint on the floor of a grocery store, and before you knew it the begging words rose uncontrollably in your throat; some bikers pulled you from the back of a bar and sat on your arms while one of them unzippered his blue jeans. Your body is still hot with shame, your voice full of thumbtacks and strange to your own ears, your eyes full of guilt and self-loathing while uniformed people walk casually by you with Styrofoam cups of coffee in their hands. Then somebody types your words on a report and you realize that this is all you will get. — James Lee Burke

I do not belong to a nation because I speak the same language as they do; I belong to them because I feel the same pain as they did. — M.F. Moonzajer

Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions
or, at least, will be second to none
and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure. — Sophie Swetchine

You never know when you're making a memory — Rickie Lee Jones

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. — Terry Pratchett