Eloises Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

The ladder had always held us before, we thought it would always hold us again, which is a philosophy that gets men and nations in trouble time after time. — Stephen King

Not everyone is fodder for books,' said Rosalind. — Jeanne Birdsall

I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go. — Taylor Kinney

It's the pausing and the stopping, perhaps going backward and losing some time, not being able to do everything we're supposed to do, that serves the soul. That's the enchantment that feeds the soul. — Thomas Moore

I once asked a rabbi in a large congregation which prayers he used with the dying. "You mean the Mourner's Kaddish?" he asked, referring to the prayer recited on behalf of the deceased. "No," I replied. "I mean the prayers said when a person is actually dying." "Oh," he replied. "I don't know. I've never seen anyone die." He had been a congregational rabbi for almost twenty years. "I only get called when it's time to do the funeral," he explained. Clearly there is much to learn within our traditional religious communities. — Megory Anderson

She thought for a minute about going back, but decided that maybe being wet on a sort-of adventure was better than being dry and bored for sure. — Ellen Klages

While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the other, Mengestu tracks both themes with authority and feeling. — Meg Wolitzer

Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady foregoes Victorian affirmations. The price it pays, however (together with several twentieth-century novels) is that it eventually leaves the reader, along with its heroine, 'en Vair' amid its self-reflections. — Ian Gregor

You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer. — Paulo Coelho

Emily Post's Etiquette is out again, this time in a new and an enlarged edition, and so the question of what to do with my evenings has been all fixed up for me. — Dorothy Parker