Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'
Quotes to Explore
-
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
-
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
-
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
-
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
-
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
-
Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
-
I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
-
Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
-
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
-
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
-
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
-
Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
-
I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
-
Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
-
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
-
I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
-
Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
-
Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
-
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
-
When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.
-
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
-
Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.
-
I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.
-
Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'
