Quotes About Elba

My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm [Kushner, Rachel, Diary , London Review of Books, January 14, 2015].

The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more stucco than stone. I do loathe this state, their Elba.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to governing a large proportion of the known world.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.