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
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of… — Steven Erikson 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
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was… — Michael Cunningham 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
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
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
Love is when there is no denying "it"...that magical, elusive feeling that really seizes us and takes us from the inside. — Stephanie Ellis Copy Share Image
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction,… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy… — Daniel Goldin Copy Share Image
It is like a dream. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was under so much pressure. That elusive medal is… — Michaela Dorfmeister Copy Share Image
A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in… — Tom Lantos Copy Share Image
