Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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• Friends
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• Walking

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Life
  • Death
  • Lies

• I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • She
  • Mom
  • Best

• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • First
  • Essential
  • Secrecy

• I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Think
  • Man

• Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Game
  • Emotions
  • Behavior

• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Think
  • Imagination
  • Paint

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Science
  • Discipline

• My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Me
  • Husband
  • Balance

• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Effort
  • Find
  • Too Much

• I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Strong
  • Best
  • Vision

• We've always believed in our music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Our

• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
  • Well
  • Bath

• People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Country
  • Business
  • History

• I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • May
  • Honor
  • Fight

• It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.

  

  Ian Brennan
  • Music
  • Words
  • Mean

• So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Community
  • Leader

• I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Up
  • Path
  • End

• My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Country
  • Family
  • Friends