Elizabeth Hay Quotes

A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.

Elizabeth Hay

• Water
• Teacher
• Marvelous
• Colours

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• Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Up
  • May
  • Want

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Boy

• I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Want
  • Enjoy
  • Sense

• Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

  

  Dan Coats
  • History
  • Action
  • Air

• The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Same
  • Boat

• I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • Success
  • Focus

• Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.

  

  Lance Loud
  • May
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • God
  • Believe
  • Ethics

• If the scope of freedom and respect for the rule of law shrinks around the world, the likelihood of war within and between nations increases, and our own freedoms will eventually be threatened.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • War
  • Freedom

• I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Wife
  • Violence

• So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Long
  • Happy

• Happy birthday to my unorthodox/free spirited mother @Courtney thanks for teaching me to embrace creativity&survive

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy
  • Mother
  • Free

• I've had every known chemical-cocaine, booze-and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • World

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.

  

  Lindsay Pearce

• In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Music
  • Power

• If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Relationship
  • Democracy
  • Tennis

• If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Spring
  • Winter

• I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Long
  • Together
  • Water

• A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Water
  • Teacher
  • Marvelous