Quotes & Sayings About Elsa

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. — Elsa Maxwell

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model. — Elsa Peretti

I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace. — Elsa Peretti

Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind. — Elsa Peretti

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate. — Elsa Maxwell

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil — Elsa Maxwell

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English. — Elsa Peretti

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity. — Elsa Peretti

He is wearing a rugby shirt with numbers and a little man on a horse on his chest. Kent has told Elsa that this sort of shirt costs more than a thousand kronor, and Granny always used to say that those sorts of shirts were a good thing, because the horse functioned as a sort of manufacturer's warning that the shirt was highly likely to be transporting a muppet. — Fredrik Backman

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told. — Elsa Morante

The site of his thinking and writing was a small office wedged in one corner of his shaggy house, on whose door he'd installed a lock to keep his sons out. They gathered wistfully outside it, his boys, with their chipped, heartbreaking faces. They were not permitted to so much as knock upon the door to the room in which he thought and wrote about art, but Ted hadn't found a way to keep them from prowling outside it, ghostly feral creatures drinking from a pond in moonlight, their bare feet digging at the carpet, their fingers sweating on the walls, leaving spoors of grease that Ted would point out each week to Elsa, the cleaning woman. He would sit in his office, listening to the movements of his boys, imagining that he felt their hot, curious breath. I will not let them in, he would tell himself. I will sit and think about art. But he found, to his despair, that often he couldn't think about art. He thought about nothing at all. — Jennifer Egan

When my guy finished his beer, he crushed it in his hand and threw it on the floor. — Elsa Day

People have to tell their stories, Elsa. Or they suffocate. — Fredrik Backman

I always buy the same things. I have about a million sweaters and a million jackets, so I'm sure I'll get some more of that. — Elsa Hosk

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did. — Joan Collins

I design for the working girl. — Elsa Peretti

A merrier baby than he had never been seen. Everything he glimpsed around him roused his interest and stirred him to joy. He looked with delight at the threads of rain outside the window, as if they were confetti and multicolored streamers. And if, as happens, the sunlight reached the ceiling indirectly and cast the shadows of the street's morning bustle, he would stare as it fascinated, refusing to abandon it, as if he were watching an extraordinary display of Chinese acrobats, given especially or him. You would have said, to tell the truth, from his laughter, from the constant brightening of his little face, that he didn't see things only in their usual aspects, but as multiple images of other things, varying to infinity. Otherwise, there was no explaining why the wretched, monotonous scene the house offered every day could afford him such diverse, inexhaustible amusement. — Elsa Morante

He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love. — Elsa Barker

In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli

After Elsa's death, Einstein established a routine that as the years passed varied less and less. Breakfast between 9 and 10 was followed by a walk to the institute. After working until 1pm he would return home for lunch and a nap. Afterwards he would work in his study until dinner between 6.30 and 7pm. If not entertaining guests, he would return to work until he went to bed between 11 and 12. He rarely went to the theatre or to a concert, and unlike Bohr, hardly ever watched a movie. He was, Einstein said in 1936, 'living in the kind of solitude that is painful in one's youth but in one's more mature years is delicious'. — Manjit Kumar

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it. — Elsa Schiaparelli

have a good selection for your consideration. — Elsa Holland

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. — Elsa Schiaparelli

He imagined then that the shifting clouds contained thousands of years, and that he had seen the same tree in two different times. What if every moment of that tree's existence, the whole of its past and its future, existed at once, here in this blank and infinite cloud? An eerie suggestion of his own insubstantiality pulled at him. He, too, was inside the void. — Elsa Hart

You know something has really stuck in Tim's head when he's drawn what the character looks like. Weird Girl and Elsa actually switched places, at one point. I may be mis-remembering it, but the original design for Weird Girl was actually Elsa, but then it became Winona Ryder's character, and the new Weird Girl was just fantastic with those giant wide eyes. — John August

I've been following Elsa, but I can't see Arendelle anymore. — Elise Allen

Wisdom is a tree of slow growth; the rings around its trunk are earthly lives, and the grooves between are the periods between lives. Who grieves that an acorn is slow in becoming an oak? — Elsa Barker

Elsa sobs as she unfolds it, the way one sobs when the tears have run out but not the crying. — Fredrik Backman

...just as Elsa opens Audi's door to jump out, he (Dad) turns to her hesitantly and says in a low voice:

"...but there are moments when I sincerely hope that not ALL your best traits come from Granny and Mum, Elsa."

And then Elsa squeezes her eyes together tightly and puts her forehead against his shoulder and her fingers into her jacket pocket and spins the lid of the red felt-tip pen that he gave her when she was small, so she could add her own punctuation marks, and which is still the best present he's ever given her. Or anyone.

"You gave me your words," she whispers. — Fredrik Backman

Mum looks hesitant. As mums get when they are accustomed to being able to predict their daughters' questions, and then suddenly find they were wrong about that. Elsa shrugs. — Fredrik Backman

Girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard, — Wallace Stegner

Don't do that to yourself, Spatzchen, Elsa thought. The world is full of Rowenas, women who could cut you to the quick with their cruel appraisals of what they think you are. You have to know your own sacredness in order to endure them. You have to know that you have been created for a reason that has everything to do with what is good and what is righteous. And no one can ever take that away from you. — Kelly O'Connor McNees

What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price. — Elsa Peretti

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets. — Elsa Barker

I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck. — Elsa Peretti

Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend ... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced. — Elsa Peretti

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it, — Elsa Peretti

When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship. — Elsa Barker

[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table. — Elsa Maxwell

Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail. — Elsa Barker

You don't get to choose your siblings,' mutters Alf. Elsa — Fredrik Backman

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust. — Elsa Triolet

It's easier to get people talking about things they dislike than things they like, Elsa has noticed. And it's easier not to get frightened of shadows in the dark — Fredrik Backman

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. — Elsa Peretti

There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship. — Elsa Triolet

Elsa heard one of the doctors at Mum's hospital saying that Granny "could start a fight in an empty room," but when Elsa told Granny she just looked miffed and said, "What if it was the room that started it? — Fredrik Backman

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished. — Elsa Maxwell

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress. — Elsa Lanchester

The wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality. — Elsa Maxwell

It was a Saturday and Granny and Elsa were going to an exhibition about dinosaurs. That was the morning Mum put the Gryffindor scarf in the wash without asking and made Elsa take another scarf - a vomit-green one. Mum knows Elsa hates green. She really lacks empathy sometimes, that woman. — Fredrik Backman

I didn't want you to remember this day because of the scarf. So I thought instead you could remember it as the day your Granny broke into a zoo - " "And escaped from a hospital," Elsa says with a grin. "And escaped from a hospital," says Granny with a grin. "And threw turds at the police." "Actually, it was soil! Or mainly soil, anyway." "Changing memories is a good superpower, I suppose." Granny shrugs. "If you can't get rid of the bad, you have to top it up with more goody stuff. — Fredrik Backman

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. — Elsa Maxwell

Once Elsa asked why so many not-shits had to die everywhere, and why so many shits didn't. And why anyone at all had to die, whether a shit or not...Granny admitted that she supposed something always had to give up its own space so that something else could take its place. "Like when we're on the bus and some old people get on?" asked Elsa. — Fredrik Backman

[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly. — Elsa Einstein

Elsa's mother no longer spoke to her of men and love, but of duty and fate and accepting one's burden. As far as Elsa could tell, if love really was the inherited female domain, then women were saddled with the biggest burden of all. It was pressing down upon them, the way the sea pressed down upon the creatures of the deep. — Kathy-Diane Leveille

A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty. — Elsa Schiaparelli

What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple. — Elsa Peretti

It's snowing again, and Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You'd quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits. She thinks that this will have to be the moral of this story. Christmas stories are supposed to have morals. — Fredrik Backman

For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily. — Elsa Peretti

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home. — Elsa Lanchester

When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out because I actually did ballet years ago. That definitely informed some of the ways I made her walk and move. — Georgina Haig

I think I always have the same style. But if I see a trend long enough, I might catch on to it. But it has to be around for a while for me to warm up to it. — Elsa Hosk

I like to do things that are classic. — Elsa Peretti

You are never a victim, unless you think you are — Elsa Mendoza

Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished. — Elsa Maxwell

Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them. — Elsa Peretti

People of Granny's age describe Wikipedia as 'an encyclopaedia, but on the net!' Encyclopaedias are what Elsa describes as 'Wikipedia, but analogue. — Fredrik Backman

I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang. — Elsa Peretti

Never plant without a bucket of compost at your side. — Elsa Bakalar

Because it was Granny who had told Elsa about the Christmas tree dance in Miamas, and no one who's heard that story wants to have a spruce tree that someone has amputated and sold into slavery. In — Fredrik Backman

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. — Elsa Schiaparelli

A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things. — Elsa Peretti

under Elsa's nose. — Landry Quinn Walker

My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN. — Erdem Moralioglu

Most rich people are the poorest people I know. — Elsa Maxwell

And in an apartment on the other side of town, everyone wakes up with a start when the hound in the first-floor flat, without any warning, starts howling. Louder and more heartrendingly than anything they have ever heard coming out of the primal depths of any animal. As if it is singing with the sorrow and yearning of an eternity of ten thousand fairy tales. It howls for hours, all through the night, until dawn.
And when the morning light seeps into the hospital room, Elsa wakes up in Granny's arms. But Granny is still in Miamas. — Fredrik Backman

The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence. — Elsa Maxwell

Elsa had looked back at the girl in the only way one can look back at someone who has just pointed at a Gryffindor scarf and said, "Ugly bloody scarf." Not totally dissimilar to how one would look at someone who had just seen a horse and gaily burst out, "Crocodile! — Fredrik Backman

Having the person that you love by your side and starting a family with them is the best thing that can happen to you in this life. You can't ask for more. — Elsa Pataky

and grabbed Great Aunt Elsa and my passport. I stood in — Victoria Twead

All my work comes out of my life. — Elsa Peretti

I always write in pencil, so I can erase. — Elsa Peretti

Sometimes I think I'd like someone to kill him."
Alf doesn't answer. Elsa looks at the hammer.
"I mean ... sort of kill, anyway. I know one shouldn't think people deserve to die. But sometimes I'm not sure people like him deserve to live ... "
Alf leans against the balcony railing.
"It's human."
"Is it human to want people to die?"
Alf shakes his head calmly.
"It's human not to be sure. — Fredrik Backman

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary. — Elsa Peretti

Curious People
Soledad, five, daughter of Juanita Fernandez: "Why don't dogs eat dessert?"
Vera, six, daughter of Elsa Villagra: "Where does night sleep? Does night sleep here under the bed?"
Luis, seven, son of Francisca Bermudez: "Will God be angry if I don't believe in him? I don't know how to tell him."
Marcos, nine, son of Silvia Awad: "If God made himself, how did he make his back?"
Carlitos, forty, son of Maria Scaglione: "Mama, how old was I when you weaned me? My psychiatrist wants to know. — Eduardo Galeano

But Granny was the sort of person you brought with you when you went to war, and that was what Elsa loved about her. — Fredrik Backman

Your intestines have such a beautiful color to them. — Tappei Nagatsuki

It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her. — Fredrik Backman

Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things. — Fredrik Backman

How strange and unnatural destiny is. I married a man eight years younger than myself, and according to the law of nature I should have been the first to die, with Him at my side. Instead, it was my destiny to witness His death.'
In speaking of Giuseppe, she always wrote Him, with a capital letter. Her style was prolix, repetitive, but with a certain academic nobility; and her handwriting was elongated, fine, even elegant. (However, in her final decline, her letters grew shorter and her written words, all shaky and twisted, groped across the page, uncertain of their direction.) — Elsa Morante

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably. — Elsa Maxwell

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness. — Elsa Maxwell

Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it. — Elsa Pataky

She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else. — Elsa Lanchester

I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold. — Elsa Triolet