Elusive Nature Quotes

Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

Inspiration is a force not to be wrestled with. You can try, but it will slip under the cracks every time.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

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.

To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he’s none of his own, and no soul either. Ware him ever, trust him never, but when the wind’s right he has his uses. Never forget that you will never know him. The Pooka’s mystery even to the Pooka.

Love is the pursuit of shadows.

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees.

There'll always be a part of me that wants to remain mysterious.

The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.

She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

Consider the sunlight. You may say that it is near, yet if you pursue it from world to world you will never catch it. You may say it is far, yet it is right before your eyes. Chase it and it always eludes you; run from it and it is always there. From this example you can understand how it is with the true nature of things.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.