Elaine A. Cannon Quotes

Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

Elaine A. Cannon

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• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• I would definitely love to be a parent.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Love
  • Parent
  • Definitely

• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Son

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Hate
  • Find
  • Conservative

• The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Islamic

• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Die
  • Rest

• The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Practice
  • Mirror

• A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • People
  • Men
  • Interesting

• And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Live
  • Die

• I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Imagination

• Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Simple

• Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Blessed

• Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.

  

  Chris D'Elia
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

  

  Bode Miller
  • People
  • Athlete
  • Priority

• As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.

  

  John Barrasso

• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Children
  • Soul
  • inspirational

• I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Food
  • Color

• I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

  

  Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Women
  • Family
  • Home

• The NFL is a different world. UT is a great world, especially when you're on top of it like he is.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • World
  • Different
  • NFL

• Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

  

  Elaine A. Cannon
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Inside