Elizabeth Hay Quotes

The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.

Elizabeth Hay

• Creativity
• Loves
• Breathing
• Humour
• Altitude

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• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

  

  Dana Plato
  • You
  • Working
  • Pleasure

• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Life
  • View

• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Light
  • Football

• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • Game
  • Batman

• There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Home
  • Better
  • Walking

• My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Complete
  • Outfit

• We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • NATO

• I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Work
  • Real
  • Movie

• A little longer still, and Heaven awaits thee,And fills thy spirit with a great delight;Then our pale joys will seem a dream forgotten,Our Sun a darkness, and our Day a Night.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Night

• For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • Trying

• I want to run until I can't run.

  

  Bill Rodgers

• Rod's always been a keen sportsman, so he didn't live as excessive a life as some musicians.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Life
  • Live

• We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.

  

  Om Malik
  • Live
  • True
  • Crazy

• Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Ambiguity

• The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • World
  • Fall

• Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Great
  • Die
  • Serious

• Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Loves
  • Mask
  • Figure

• But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

  

  Eugene Field
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Loves

• The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Creativity
  • Loves
  • Breathing