Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in… — Macdonald Critchley Copy Share Image
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The war in Iraq has been very, very expensive - partly because the Administration tried to keep the apparent costs down. But… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Interestingly, anger and lust are also elusive states once they have passed. Trying to recall why you were angry about something when… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating… — William Styron Copy Share Image
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
'Elusive' is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an… — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't… — Cliff Richard Copy Share Image
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently. — Dave Liniger Copy Share Image
“he is as elusive as a falling star, one that nobody will ever really catch, and if you catch him, he will… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist?… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain… — Lukas Foss 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
Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive — Les Paul Copy Share Image
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
