Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys. — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken. — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE. — Brian Johnson 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
Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits… — Bayard Taylor 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
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
Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
“I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I'm trying to write a feeling, not a story.… — Matt Berninger 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 act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because Jesus Christ has prepared Himself from the foundations of the world we can trust Him as one uniquely qualified through the… — David Wright Copy Share Image
As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive… — Caroline Knapp 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
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Dear John, There's so much I want to say to you, but I'm not sure where I should begin. Should I start… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
What can one say about Michael Jackson? He is one of the world's most acclaimed entertainers, an innovative and exciting songwriter whose… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents… — Charles S. Maier Copy Share Image
