Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears. — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is… — Klaus Mann Copy Share Image
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
There are also dozens and dozens of success stories; many couples have emailed me with their original posts. I love reading these… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success.… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Canadian Identity, it seems, is truly elusive only at home. Beyond the borders Canadians know exactly who they are, within they… — Roy MacGregor Copy Share Image
In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need… — Dawn Olivieri Copy Share Image
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what… — K'naan Copy Share Image
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn. — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
