Elttil Quotes & Sayings

Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living. — Heather Dorff

Can you, in short, be prevailed on to quit this scene of public triumph and oblige your friend Eleanor with your company in Gloucestershire? I am almost ashamed to make the request, though its presumption would certainly appear greater to every creature in Bath than yourself. Modesty such as yours - but not for the world would I pain it by open praise. If you can be induced to honour us with a visit, you will make us happy beyond expression. — Jane Austen

Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck. — W. H. Auden

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain. — Frank Smythe

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away. — Mitch Hedberg

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience. — John Portman

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield. — George Lillo

Carla might recognize herself in the lean girls against the bar, the girls in slender-cut suits with silver rings on each finger and thumb who looked so compact and secretive, so much as if all their essences were perfectly locked and kept, and only if you managed to please them could you unlock their fingers and pry them out. They smelled of a different perfume, they never quite met your eyes except in a swift and thorough appraisal whose conclusion you became aware of immediately when their eyes averted without the longed-for approving smile. You longed to go with them to secret apartments in the suburbs or condos on the lakeshore and there have their fingers brush down your back and have their maroon mouths kiss your thighs. — Dionne Brand

Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms. — Megalyn Echikunwoke

VALERIE: .....It isn't your fault. These things, these horrible things just happen. — Cambria Hebert

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is. — S.A. Tawks

Travelling in the places where no man has travelled before is the only way to reach the places where no man has reached before! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types. — Laila Robins