Elizabeth Hay Quotes

What we lose is any sense that life is alive, she thought. The days follow one after the other and everything passes us by. Then along comes someone who looks at us kindly, as if we were worth noticing, and life quickens.

Elizabeth Hay

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• Lose
• Passes
• Noticing

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• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Sense
  • Living
  • Lucky

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • You
  • Never
  • Lose

• You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Important
  • Real
  • Game

• If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Enjoy
  • Lose
  • Victories

• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Beautiful
  • Passion
  • Sense

• If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Think
  • Lose

• I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • Lose
  • Three

• 'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Lost
  • Sense

• You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Lose

• I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Arms
  • Crowd

• The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Lose
  • Birthday

• I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Sense
  • Humour

• I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Country
  • Sense
  • Will

• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Lose
  • Consciousness

• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Courage
  • Lose
  • Imperfections

• I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Lose

• I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Song
  • Knowledge
  • Healthy

• I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Angry
  • Lose
  • Temper

• I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Sex

• I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Feels
  • Able
  • Sweat

• I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

  

  Silas Weir Mitchell
  • Humor
  • Places
  • Intended

• What we lose is any sense that life is alive, she thought. The days follow one after the other and everything passes us by. Then along comes someone who looks at us kindly, as if we were worth noticing, and life quickens.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Sense
  • Lose
  • Passes