C. Elizabeth Quotes

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

I like my coffee light.

Hold fast to life and youth.

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?

I judge a woman and a horse by the same criteria: legs, head and rear end.

Those who die relearn or remember The secrets of life that they forgot at birth.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

I don't sell cosmetics, I sell hope.

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

No matter what you do each day...or in life...doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.

A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

I love to be casual and comfortable, but I also love the easy glamour of wearing jewelry all the time.

Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

eventually, everything goes away.

We waltzed Lisztlessly.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.