All Quotes

Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.
‐‐ Eliot Schrefer

Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their G's and saying things in a folksy sort of way that's meant to capture the hearts of people. And it's all fraud; it's all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if it's proletariat behavior.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
‐‐ Mark Morris

'Elixir' means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.
‐‐ Shakira

Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.
‐‐ Eliza Doolittle

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
‐‐ Dorothy Fields

Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.
‐‐ Brendan Fraser

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.
‐‐ Kirsty Gallacher

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
‐‐ Jennifer Chiaverini

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
‐‐ J. M. Coetzee

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog.
‐‐ Bob Dole

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.
‐‐ Bo Derek

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.
‐‐ Joe Jonas

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.
‐‐ Michael Jackson

Elizabeth Taylor taught me that if you do your hair and makeup first then take a hot bath right before you leave, it brings out your inner glow and takes away the powdery look from makeup. I do that right before every date.
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt

Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.
‐‐ Teresa Medeiros

Elizabeth Warren has very good proposals regarding Wall Street, but she really has not been leading the charge for single-payer health care... and is pretty much a war hawk in alignment with Hillary Clinton.
‐‐ Jill Stein

'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.
‐‐ Cameron Crowe

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.
‐‐ Norman Granz

Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing; she is just so beautiful.
‐‐ Carol Alt

Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but part-time. And I get that. I mean, Norway has a 35-hour work week. That counts as part-time for us in the United States, you know. And Norway's doing well, by the way.
‐‐ Arlie Russell Hochschild

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
‐‐ Norman Granz

Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
‐‐ Andre Previn

Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.
‐‐ David Souter

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
‐‐ Derek Jacobi

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.
‐‐ Margaret Mahy

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
‐‐ Zach Johnson

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
‐‐ David Hume

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.
‐‐ Kygo

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness.
‐‐ Jon Landau

Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.
‐‐ Jon Landau

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
‐‐ Barry White

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!
‐‐ Maurice Gibb

Elves are cool, man.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.
‐‐ Ursula Andress

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Bob Seger

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.
‐‐ Nick Lowe

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
‐‐ Chip Esten