E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.”
“Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.”
“Eloy Alfaro... el que intentó varias veces vender el Archipiélago de Galápagos ya a Norte América, ya al Japón y al fin a Alemania en tres mil millones de marcos y que no lo vendió porque Inglaterra puso el veto a la venta alegando ser Inglaterra dueña del Archipiélago y el Ecuador un 'benévolo administrador'.”
Source: Quito fue España
“Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.”
Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz
“Elphie se dit : qu'elles sottes créatures que ces enfants - d'une sottise gênante - qui n'arrêtent pas de changer, par honte, par besoin d'être aimé, ou que sais-je encore. Les animaux, eux, sont nés comme ils sont, l'acceptent, et c'est tout. Ils vivent plus sereinement que les gens.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Elpidio sensed that David had more to say but was holding back due to their friendship. He wondered why David had gone along with Emiliana's seemingly impulsive ideas.”
Source: Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller
“Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.”
Source: Duke Elric
“Elric: We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocation of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things.
John Sheridan: Such as?
Elric: The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain. How to say good-bye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor. How to be rich. How to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them. That is why we are going away—to preserve that knowledge.
Sheridan: From what?
Elric: There is a storm coming, a black and terrible storm. We would not have our knowledge lost or used to ill purpose. From this place we will launch ourselves into the stars. With luck, you will never see our kind again in your lifetime. I know you have your orders, Captain. Detain us if you wish. But I cannot tell you where we are going. I can only ask you to trust us.”
“Elrond,” Bruce said. “The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It’s the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring.”
“Jesus,” Annie said. “None of you got laid in high school, did you?”
Source: The Martian
“Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“Elrond was in his chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the trees.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.”
“Els arguments alarmistes sobre l'ús del català coincideixen tots a reclamar un canvi radical d'estratègia en la política de normalització lingüística. No accepten o menysvaloren els resultats obtinguts dins aquest marc estratègic, que s'ha revelat positiu i eficaç en tants aspectes. En política lingüística, el consens assolit, principalment a Catalunya, és un atot de gran transcendència social, que seria suïcida de dilapidar. Repetim-ho: cal discutir, i en profunditat, tots els aspectes tàctics que es demostrin inútils o insuficients, cal reconsiderar i revisar moltes mesures de política lingüística tant al Principat com, sobretot, a les altres terres de llengua catalana, cal exigir una coherència més rigorosa entre els principis i la pràctica quotidiana, però seria un greu error polític que les insatisfaccions presents ens fessin perdre de vista l'encert essencial del procés de normalització lingüística i la seva estratègia. Així, doncs, siguem prudents a l'hora de considerar algunes de les propostes «miraculoses» que a vegades es formulen, perquè no podem malbaratar els avenços tan dificultosament aconseguits. Al capdavall, la convivència lingüística és un bé social no tan accessori com algunes veus semblen deixar entendre, amb manifestes incomprensions respecte als castellanoparlants. En definitiva, com ens ha recordat una vegada més Badia i Margarit, cal assumir que «si un dia el català desapareixia, això no seria pas perquè els no catalans no s'hi haguessin incorporat, sinó perquè els catalans l'haurien abandonat».”
Source: L'ús del català, un futur controvertit. Qüestions de normalització lingüística al llindar del segle XXI
“Els desmemoriats sempre tenen la consciència tranquil·la.”
Source: Consells, proverbis i insolències
“Els esforços que fa la gent del nostre país per no entendre's són impressionants. És la tenacitat més viva del país.”
“Els fills: la llibertat és l’amor; la llibertat interior és un valor absolut; és quan un no té por dels propis desitjos; és tenir les butxaques plenes, així un ho tindrà tot; és quan un pot viure sense pensar en la llibertat. La llibertat és una cosa normal.”
Source: Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
“Els gossos no em mosseguen mai. Només ho fan els homes.”
Source: Retrats
“Els grans botxins no se’n surten sense els petits. Se’n necessiten molts per a fer la feina bruta.”
Source: Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
“Els herois de guerra no existeixen… Quan un home empunya un fusell, no pot ser bo.”
Source: Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
“Els meus pits són dos ocells engabiats
quan els teus dits els cerquen
per entre les fulles i les flors del vestit.
Però quan fulles i flors cauen a terra
-que el desig porta dalla!-,
són dos peixos que et fugen de les mans
en les crestes nevades de la mar.”
Source: Bruixa de dol
“Els monopolis ideològics sempre parlen de llibertat”
Source: Sòlids en suspensió
“Els nous somnis eren fer-se construir una casa, comprar-se un cotxe bo, plantar un groseller. Es va constatar que la llibertat era la rehabilitació d’aquell esperit petitburgès que a Rússia es tenia el costum de denigrar. La llibertat de Sa Majestat el Consum.”
Source: Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
“Els pobladors de la Península Ibèrica, quan les coses els van malament, s'autoacusen d'individualistes i es pensen que amb això ja queda tot explicat.”
Source: Consells, proverbis i insolències
“Els puts his eye to a burst of stars. They cluster, a blue star nursery, spraying out new worlds. He feels like he did two years ago, when he first looked at a glowing stain of cells under the 1,000x objective and realized that life happens elsewhere, on scales that have nothing to do with him.”
Source: Orfeo
“Els records són mal·leables i és fàcil corregir-los, un pot retallar-ne les engrunes i posar-hi un altre fons, sucumbir als vicis dels nostres temps i retocar-los, jugar amb filtres que els embelleixin i fer-se un passat a mida per encarar un present de carn i ossos on no cal ser tan intransigent perquè ningú es colarà dins la nostra soledat per recordar-nos que aquella ombra no hi era i que aquell racó estava més il·luminat.”
Source: Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes
“Els teus llavis. La fruita. La magrana...
Àngel rebel, tot olor de gingebre.
Atrapa'm pels replecs d'aquesta febre.
Vine amb verdor de pluja. Sargantana
que em fuges pels cabells, sense frontera,
al bat del sol, ales d'ocell nocturn!
Serves per cor la Lluna o bé Saturn
i, als ulls, un tast de boira matinera.
El teu cos mineral. Sal. Vi. Maduixa.
Com una serp, cargola't al meu ventre
i cerca'm, amb verí d'amor, al centre.
Tu seràs un gat negre. Jo una bruixa.
Ens fitarem errants, i en el desvari
la lluna, cega, encendrà l'escenari.”
Source: Bruixa de dol
“Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You’d quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits.”
Source: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“Elsa's mother no longer spoke to her of men and love, but of duty and fate and accepting one’s burden. As far as Elsa could tell, if love really was the inherited female domain, then women were saddled with the biggest burden of all. It was pressing down upon them, the way the sea pressed down upon the creatures of the deep.”
Source: Standing in the Whale's Jaw
“Elsa smiled, her heart full and her head in a good place. Her people were happy. She was content. And she was very, very loved by a sister who had finally been returned to her. Things were exactly as they should be.”
Source: Conceal, Don't Feel
“Elsa stared at Rose for as long as she could, memorizing everything about her, but at last, she had no choice. It was time to leave this place, this woman, this home”
Source: The Four Winds
“Elsa was smart and focused, but kept so much bottled up inside her it was a wonder she didn't explode. Anna was a free spirit who wore her heart on her sleeve, but she could also be impulsive. Even at five, she was already an outgoing little thing who liked to stop and talk to every person she met, while Elsa tried to hide behind her parents at gatherings and preferred life in the background. They balanced each other perfectly- Elsa knowing when to help rein Anna in, and Anna knowing when to pull Elsa out.”
Source: Conceal, Don't Feel
“Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!”
Source: The Bed and Breakfast Star
“Elsewhen -- anyplace but here, any time but now, because the Future just isn't what it used to be. Neither is the past.”
“Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.”
Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.”
“Elsewhere is within; a good place to look if you’re lost…”
“Elsewhere Lankford reiterates that this belief system was by no means confined to the Plains, the Eastern Woodlands, and the Mississippi Valley. It is better understood, he argues, as part of 'a widespread religious pattern' found right across North America and 'more powerful than the tendency towards cultural diversity.' Indeed, what the evidence suggests is the former existence of 'an ancient North American international religion ... a common ethnoastronomy ... and a common mythology. Such a multicultural reality hints provocatively at more common knowledge which lay behind the façade of cultural diversity united by international trade networks. One likely possibility of a conceptual realm in which that common knowledge became focused is mortuary belief [and] ... the symbolism surrounding death.”
Source: America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
“Elsewhere that same day, sleet covered the dead grass outside a modest lavender home in the northern village of Oščadnica like bits of confetti. The piercing wind picked up, keeping afloat a host of identical LSNS flags, green cloth dancing under the murky winter sky.
Within the thirty-person crowd, greetings all around. ‘At guard,’ they said to one another, saluting coyly, using a fascist phrase that was popular under Tiso’s rule. The green-clad audience former rows and stood with folded hands over their laps, as local LSNS František Drozd placed a multicolored wreath of flowers at the foot of the home where Tiso once lived. Drozd broke the momentary silence and welcomed the crowd. As the Sunday morning mass concluded across the street, churchgoers poured out of the church. A handful of them—dressed smartly in church digs—joined the procession.
A gaggle of police officers stood next to their cars in the adjacent parking lot, rubbing their gloved hands together to stay warm, boredom sketched across their faces.”
Source: Alerta! Alerta!: Snapshots of Europe's Anti-fascist Struggle
“Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.”
“Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.”
Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop
“Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to be swallowed up in turn - and in all this sound and fury, amidst eruptions and undertows, while the world goes its merry way, bursts into flames, tears itself apart and is reborn: human life continues to throb.
So, let us drink a cup of tea.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to be swallowed up in turn - and in all this sound and fury, amidst eruptions and undertows, while the world goes its merry way, bursts into flames, tears itself apart and is reborn: human life continues to throb.”
“Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate?”
Source: Victory of Eagles
“Elspeth died while Robert was standing in front of a vending machine watching tea shoot into a small plastic cup.”
Source: Her Fearful Symmetry
“Elspeth reached up a tentative hand to comfort him, palming the cheek that wasn’t covered with woad.
He wrapped an arm around her waist and tugged her closer. Her lips parted. His tongue swept in. Her belly clenched, and a warm glow settled between her legs.
He left her lips and began kissing her chin, her cheeks, her neck. “Ach! Ye’re sweet, lass.”
Pity dissipated like morning mist. Instead, little wisps of pleasure followed his mouth’s path. The stubble of his beard grazed the tops of her breasts, and her nipples tightened almost painfully. She sucked her breath over her teeth to keep from crying out in pleasure and surprise when his palm covered her breast, the pressure sweet even through the stiff boning of her pink silk bodice.”
Source: Sins of the Highlander
“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.”
“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.”
“Elton John said to me, "I have all the negatives."”
“Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.”
“Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.”