Quotes for All
I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love – plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing – turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn’t want, couldn’t use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and … Read more
This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods. Elizabeth Taylor
I wondered, \”Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time? Elizabeth Gilbert
I’m not worried about misconception or a perception that’s bad. If I were, I’d be chasing something all the time. Elisabeth Hasselbeck
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell. Elbert Hubbard
Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I’m here to be, why I’m here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that’s something I am always … Read more
Time is chasing after all of us. Eileen Essell
I’m trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you’re constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you’ve had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there’s not a line of continuity to it. Eddie Redmayne
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage … Read more
I’m doing a book, ‘Chasing Science,’ about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. Frederik Pohl