Elliott Chaze Quotes

If your life can hang from a chewing gum wrapper it can hang from anything in the book. It can hang from a bullet no bigger than a bean, or from a cigarette smoked in bed, or a bad breakfast that causes the doctor to sew the absorbent cotton inside you. From a slick tire tread or the hiccups or from kissing the wrong woman. Life is a rental proposition with no lease. For everybody, tall and short, muscles and fat, white and yellow, rich and poor. I know that now. And it is good to know at a time like this.

Elliott Chaze

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• Kissing
• Doctor
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• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Always
  • Succeed
  • Doctor

• I want to love life.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Mistakes

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • Fairy
  • Fairytale

• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Life
  • Real
  • Love

• The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Live
  • Book

• The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Serious

• I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can … But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Soul

• To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessed

• Jo from The Facts of Life was such a lesbian. Wasn't she the biggest lesbian? I used to watch that show, like, 'Oh, she gonna fuck Blair!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Life
  • She
  • Lesbian

• No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Life

• There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Life
  • Up
  • Present

• It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

  

  Joe Gold
  • Life

• I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

  

  Don McCullin
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Children
  • Book

• I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop!

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Facebook

• Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Something

• You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Bows
  • Narnia

• If your life can hang from a chewing gum wrapper it can hang from anything in the book. It can hang from a bullet no bigger than a bean, or from a cigarette smoked in bed, or a bad breakfast that causes the doctor to sew the absorbent cotton inside you. From a slick tire tread or the hiccups or from kissing the wrong woman. Life is a rental proposition with no lease. For everybody, tall and short, muscles and fat, white and yellow, rich and poor. I know that now. And it is good to know at a time like this.

  

  Elliott Chaze
  • Life
  • Book
  • Kissing