C. Elizabeth Quotes

... 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.

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

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

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.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

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

Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

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?

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.

Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?

As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.

It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.

I've always been a huge fan of 'The Shining,' and 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite films of all time.

We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.

Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.

Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.

First we love within, then we love the world.

To me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift.

My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you

We cannot transform what we refuse to engage

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.

Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.

My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.

Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.