C. Elizabeth Quotes

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.

Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.

When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.

When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Barack Obama heard the American people.

...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus

It is remarkable what a woman can accomplish with just a little ambition.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

To be beautiful is the birthright of every women.

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

the flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he’d never let her see how close she’d come to unseating a champion

Since when was genius found respectable?

If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!