C. Elizabeth Quotes

I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration.

I will love Michael Jackson forever.

This is a passion story: my passion, his, ours — yours.

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at the geological time, you can't find anything like us.

I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything.

Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

I got to meet Mark Hamill. He signed some Star Wars posters for us. I saw the fight scenes he had. He was really into making fun of himself and Star Wars.

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.

My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God.

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

Under the snowdrifts the blossoms are sleeping, Dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June, Down in the hush of their quiet they're keeping Trills from the throstle's wild summer-sung tune.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.