There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, 'I remember when 'all right' was two words.'


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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
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Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II
If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE
Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY
perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY
You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY
Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU
My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb eno...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...
ELIZABETH WARREN
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK
Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
ELIZABETH BERG
Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No...
ELIZABETH FLOCK
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating
ELIZABETH SCOTT
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing...
ELIZABETH ALDER
You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b...
ELIZABETH WINDER
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN