Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.

Elizabeth McCracken

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • House
  • Control
  • New

• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Tongue

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Misfortune

• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Idea
  • Pleasure
  • Oneself

• Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Love
  • Control
  • For Her

• Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• Language is fun; it's fun to try.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Fun
  • Language
  • Try

• Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Money
  • Book
  • Stock

• I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Game
  • Team
  • Player

• I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Music
  • American

• I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Think
  • Run
  • Office

• Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Time
  • Live
  • Cancer

• I think - more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Think
  • Start

• I want everybody to know I'm approachable. I'm a true conservative, but I'm an American first.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • American
  • True
  • Want

• You ain't got the answers Sway!

  

  Kanye West

• In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Up
  • Family
  • She

• What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

  

  Charles S. Dutton
  • Work
  • August

• Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • Fall
  • Singing

• I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

  

  John Edwards
  • Son
  • April

• The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

  

  Jose Andres
  • World
  • Poverty

• I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken