Elsing Quotes & Sayings

People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets. — Diane Ackerman

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it. — Erika Slezak

An artist's most valuable asset is individuality. — Jewel

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before ... — Doris Lessing

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble."
"But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg.
"That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em. — Terry Pratchett

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Refusing! And she is after me with a broom, trying to sweep my rotten carcass into the open. Why, shades of Gregor Samsa! Hello Alex, goodbye Franz! "You better tell me you're sorry, you, or else! And I don't mean maybe either!" I am five, maybe six, and she is or-elsing me and not-meaning-maybe as though the firing squad is already outside, lining the street with newspaper preparatory to my execution. — Philip Roth

One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky