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To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies.
— Joanne Harris
Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.
— Frederick Leboyer
He wanted me to go with him, and had cast his line, hoping to snag his most elusive catch - me.
— Amber Lynn Natusch
Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.
— Brian O'Driscoll
They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel — Emmuska Orczy
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel — Emmuska Orczy
You can't find peace until you find all the pieces. She wants to help Vivian find some kind of peace, elusive and fleeting as it may be.
— Christina Baker Kline
There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you ... right now.
— Brian Kenny
I believe the night I've never met
hides one elusive star I need
to divide me between darkness and light — Munia Khan
hides one elusive star I need
to divide me between darkness and light — Munia Khan
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Writing is a simple but elusive art," he said. "To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.
— Josh Farrar
Happiness is elusive, for sure.But like love, and music, I believe in it because I can feel it.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
Her body beckoned me. She was different, elusive, unobtainable. And my cock wanted unobtainable.
— Pepper Winters
I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness.
— Marina Keegan
Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch ...
— John Geddes
My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.
— Paul Gauguin
I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.
— Stevie Jackson
Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
— Brandon Mull
Depression ... so mysteriously painful and elusive ...
— William Styron
Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
— Eve Ensler
Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith.
— Amos Smith
Elusive success is not the same as failure.
— Damon Throop
Time, my elusive friend, just for once can you turn back the clock,
Play back some of my lost moments and some events can you block? — K.S. Khatana
Play back some of my lost moments and some events can you block? — K.S. Khatana
The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ...
— Alice Dunbar Nelson
I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.
— Tallulah Bankhead
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
— Andrew Bird
We must recognize, however, that intrinsic value is an elusive concept.
— Benjamin Graham
You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.
— Sara Humphreys
Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.
— Frederick Lenz
What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.
— Willa Cather
I was going to fight to keep the elusive Horde King as my own. Every beauty needed a beast, and he was mine.
— Amelia Hutchins
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue - just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.
— L.M. Montgomery
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.
— Lukas Foss
The elusive nature of love ... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
— Mick Jagger
I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging.
— Darynda Jones
But, then, the truest perceptions of life, for me at least, have always proved to be the most elusive and the most shortlived
— Arun Joshi
Love is when there is no denying "it" ... that magical, elusive feeling that really seizes us and takes us from the inside.
— Stephanie Ellis
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
— Joni Mitchell
He'd tried to sleep, too, but that was an elusive bitch who had no use for him tonight.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think we are all cats with nine lives, or even more. We must rejoice in our elusive catness.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Everything in life is elusive.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Being cool, like being humble or radical, is a perfectly elusive goal that you fail at the minute you reveal that you are trying to succeed.
— Christine Jeske
Balance was so elusive: either it was like this, too fast, or there was the heavy thing like wading through a swamp to get to the end of a sentence.
— Edward St. Aubyn
In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive.
— Richard Marsden
Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it's elusive and may be an illusion.
— R.L. Griffin
As often happens in science, discoveries are made in the pursuit of an elusive (and sometimes nonexistent) goal.
— Stephen Hawking
In all of us there is an elusive melody which when heard and followed leads to the fulfillment of our fondest dreams
— Siegfried & Roy
Sleep was like wealth, elusive and for other people.
— Cristina Henriquez
Is she always elusive?" "Her whole life's a no-show.
— Hanif Kureishi
Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.
— Elmer Seward
To catch you're elusive dreams you must be prepared to track it to the ends of the earth. Let nothing stop you're pursuit of dreams.
— Truth Devour
The real Ivan was rather more elusive, Mark gauged; it would not do to underestimate his subtlety, or mistake him for a simpleton.
— Anonymous
The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
— Douglas MacArthur
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
— John Buchan
Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
— Ze Frank
Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.
— Dave Liniger
Nate grins, that elusive, sexy, melt my panties grin and I find myself returning it.
— Kristen Proby
He is as elusive as a falling star, one that nobody will ever really catch, and if you catch him, he will only burn right through you.
— Katy Evans
Official decisions are as elusive
as young girls. — Franz Kafka
as young girls. — Franz Kafka
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
— Hippocrates
I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.
— Edward Teller
If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best.
— Joan Z. Borysenko
Sometimes Anatole wonders just where the elusive point is, where you stop being sane.
— Paul Russell
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
— Adele
Joy, that elusive, priceless commodity, was once again his.
— Karen Marie Moning
As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
— William Baziotes
Nothing that exists can be comic; it was like a floating analogy, almost entirely elusive, with certain aspects of vaudeville.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.
— Tom Lantos
Rainbow what? Are you searching for a pot of gold? Tiny leprechauns? Hoping to catch the elusive pegacorn?
— Ashlan Thomas
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
— Jeff Bezos
He has come to lead me to that elusive place where promises take us and dreams carry us further.
— Melissa Muldoon
We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?
— Emma Orczy
Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning ...
— Jean Baudrillard
The conscience of my elusive race gives not a fig for me, baby. But I endure, if you know what I mean.
— Richard Farina
The guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
— Les Paul
It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.
— Lisa Kleypas
Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.
— Janet Evanovich
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Happiness isn't some elusive treasure we chase after. It's a state of being we need to PRACTICE.
— Brian Johnson
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.
— Richard Hofstadter
Sometimes truth was elusive...
— Dean Koontz
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
— Jan Tschichold
Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.
— Paul Davies
We had approached nearer to absolute Truth, which, like Beauty itself, floats elusive, obscure, half submerged, in the silent still waters of mystery.
— Joseph Conrad
All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.
— Stedman Graham
I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions.
— Hedi Slimane
What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!
— Elizabeth Bibesco