Elude Quotes

• The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Suffering

• To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Elude

• Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Sometimes
  • Genius
  • Irony

• Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Literature
  • Force
  • Elude

• One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence. Sure, sometimes they'll elude you by hiding in improbable places... But at other times they'll confront you, and you'll literally stumble over some tomes you hadn't thought about in weeks or years. I often seek electronic books, but they never come after me. They may make me feel, but I can't feel them. They are all soul with no flesh, no texture, and no weight. They can get in your head but can't whack you upside it.

  

  Will Schwalbe
  • Sometimes
  • Printed
  • Improbable

• But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Facts
  • Natural
  • Tests

• Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Light
  • Looks
  • Sight