C. Elizabeth Quotes

In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

I never invite idiots to my house.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.

I like people to match my energy.

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

I've always been obsessed by beef jerky.

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.

During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

To be human is to be lost in the woods.

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy.

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.