Elusive Quotes

191 Elusive quotes by 175 unique authors

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your… — Muriel Spark
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. — Julie Walters
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at… — Martin Filler
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment,… — Michael Pollan
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. — Jerry Spinelli
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razorâ€™s edge, sharper than a houndâ€™s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is… — Philip K. Dick
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.… — Jerry Spinelli
But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with… — Georges Bataille
The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a… — Michael Cunningham
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are… — Gloria Naylor
Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable. — Janet Evanovich
I am crying over the elusive nature of love. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous… — Vladimir Nabokov
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how… — Steven Erikson
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… — John Dewey
And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing… — Marguerite Yourcenar
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.… — Mahatma Gandhi
I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The… — Anne Lamott
No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back… — Jerry Spinelli
When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy… — J R Ward

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