Elaine Stritch Quotes

I think Kyle Chandler is something of a national treasure.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

[Donald] Trump is now. And we don't know what the rules are now.

He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.

I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's what I said.

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt".

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

I have no talent for certainty.

Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.

The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.

Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?

I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

The only certainty is uncertainty

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

I looked over at him. "Is that a proposal?" There was total silence for a couple beats. "I'm not sure. It just popped out." "Let me know when you're sure." "Would you say yes?" Morelli asked. "I'm not sure.