Quotes About Elusiveness

things to remain flexible, they need to be complicated or vague, and preferably both.

The white hound who runs before them is gone, vanished, tattered and blown apart by the freshening breeze as if he had no more substance than a twist of smoke.

Her earliest memory was of wings. Luminous red and blue, yellow and green and orange; a black so rich it appeared liquid, edible. They moved above her and the sunlight made them glow as though they were themselves made of light, fragments of another, brighter world falling to earth about her crib. Her tiny hands stretched upwards to grasp them but could not: they were too elusive, too radiant, too much of the air.

I wasn't worried, but I thought I should know something that didn't seem to be there anymore. It was gone, whatever it was, fleeting and slippery like a fish darting through silky weeds. From

We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.

You wouldn't have known her, you'd have seen her everywhere at once, in a hotel, in a street, in a train, in a bar, in a book, in a film, in yourself, your inmost self, when your sex grew erect in the night, seeking somewhere to put itself, somewhere to shed its load of tears.

We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel.

Yes, it did look like 'where did she go?' I was hiding.

The real magic of the Sinspire was woven from its capricious exclusivity; deny something to enough people and sooner or later it will grow a mystique as thick as fog.

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.

The coils of a serpent are even more complex than the burrows of a molehill.

What makes me a hard target is that I have no fixed points in my life—no workplace, no address, no known associates—that someone can hook into and use to get to me. If someone had established a connection from Harry to me, he'd have that fixed point. He could be expected to exploit it.

I like being the girl nobody can have.

ShadowClan cats are better than most of us at hiding," Firestar pointed out under his breath.

Het is raar met meisjes. Je kunt er niet omheen. Ze zijn zo leuk. En ze zijn overal. Ze doen altijd alsof hun neus bloedt. Ik hou van hun stemmen. En ik hou ervan als ze lachen en glimlachen. En als ze lopen. Ze zijn ook een beetje eng. Soms denk ik dat ze iets weten wat ik niet weet. Maar ze zijn leuk. En moeilijk te krijgen.

Our partners do not belong to us; they are only on loan, with an option to renew—or not. Knowing that we can lose them does not have to undermine commitment; rather, it mandates an active engagement that long-term couples often lose. The realization that our loved ones are forever elusive should jolt us out of complacency, in the most positive sense.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Dar cum sa vorbesti despre un rau care nu poate fi descris,care isi schimba infatisarea ca norii, care se involbureaza ca vantul?

Is she always elusive?" "Her whole life's a no-show.

Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.

He had discovered the scents and aromas of a spring that was eternally one day away.

I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

Seeking Romulan Montargo here and there, Leopardo had continually not found him.

They verbally attacked each other with Mao's quotations, making cynical use of his guru-like elusiveness––it was easy to select a quotation of Mao's to suit any situation, or even both sides of the same argument.