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Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard. -- Martin Filler
Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue." -- John Eliot
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? -- Henry David Thoreau
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. -- Thomas Wolfe
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. -- Robin Morgan
A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form. -- Ferdinand Porsche
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated. -- A. R. Rahman
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. -- Franz Kafka
Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain. -- Ellen G. White
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. -- Shelley Berman
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future. -- John Podhoretz
I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus. -- Edward E. Barnard
Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health. -- Joel Fuhrman
The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true. -- Roger Ebert
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers. -- Alan Clark
To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun. -- John Legend
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology. -- David Suzuki
I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that. -- Ben Feldman
I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places. -- Imogen Poots
Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle. -- Ashwin Sanghi
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. -- Erin Morgenstern
Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think. -- Ridley Scott
Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive. -- Stephen Fry
We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well. -- Nikola Tesla
A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate. -- Lysander Spooner
Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission. -- William Stone
My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there. -- Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity. -- George Darley
American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik. -- Buzz Aldrin
Games are the most elevated form of investigation. -- Albert Einstein
When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows. -- James Cook
[Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy -- Nick Clegg
Donald Trump just has always elevated women to the highest echelons. -- Kellyanne Conway
I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated. -- Henry David Thoreau
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. -- William Winwood Reade
A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form, -- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label. -- Ryan Lilly
A man's mind is elevated to the status of the women he associates with. -- Professor Griff
Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts. -- John Stuart Mill
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne. -- Bob Beauprez
Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable. -- Cate Blanchett
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. -- Horace
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada. -- Farley Mowat
I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep. -- Hrithik Roshan
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office. -- George Washington
Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness. -- Reese Witherspoon
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct. -- Henry Ward Beecher
No matter the level of opposition from external forces, whoever God has elevated, will definitely stay elevated. -- Edmond Mbiaka
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. -- Samuel Johnson
the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before. -- Richard Cobden
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance -- J. K. Rowling
Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state... -- Mary Martha Sherwood
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. -- Fernando Pessoa
When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department then the sky really is the limit. -- Lily Collins
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. -- Christopher Dawson
The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated. -- Janet Fitch
Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose. -- Manis Friedman
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader... -- Aberjhani
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. -- Mark Strand
Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success. -- Eli Manning
work is elevated by our daily environment into something that is appropriately done everywhere and at every conceivable moment. -- Sally Helgesen
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. -- Frantz Fanon
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base. -- Epicurus
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. -- Lucretius
A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other. -- Samuel Smiles
New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city. -- Jeffrey Wright
The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe. -- Democritus
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure. -- John Dryden
As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow. -- Bryan Fuller
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change. -- Nicolas Chamfort
There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions. -- Christopher Michael Cillizza
When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated. -- Hugh Sidey
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. -- Henry David Thoreau
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. -- Charles Dickens
The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting -- Siddharth Katragadda
Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train. -- John French Sloan
Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. -- Vannevar Bush
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position. -- Ernestine Rose
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it. -- Mencius
I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more. -- Chris Ofili
It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women. -- Eliza R. Snow
Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch. -- Tim McCarver
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome. -- Isaac Watts
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. -- John Podhoretz
These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there. -- Vincent Bugliosi
If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people. -- Dan Malloy
Osama's dead. Why is the terror alert elevated or imminent? Why not chill? Can't I just fly, keep my shoes on and avoid X-ray-fueled testicular cancer? -- Christopher Titus
If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people. -- Dan Malloy
How the woman movement has elevated woman's work, since it has raised the standard of qualification in many fields and increased the feeling of responsibility in all! -- Ellen Key
I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year. -- Tinker Hatfield
I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game. -- Eric Thomas
Hi, Mom"Yes, I know my heart rate's dangerously elevated. That sound? I'm being shot at, Ma. Gotta go now. Love you much. Hugs and kisses. (Devyn) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him. -- Maria Montessori
Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion. -- W. C. Brownell
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. -- Ed Smith
A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. -- Johnny Rich
Coach Bo Pelini and coach Carl Pelini are two coaches I talk to on a regular basis, especially coach Bo. They are coaches I feel elevated my game. -- Ndamukong Suh
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director. -- Famke Janssen
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great. -- Victor Hugo
There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves. -- Bruno Dumont
The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences. -- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds. -- Molly Shannon
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated. -- Shelley Winters
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit. -- H. P. Lovecraft
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. -- Brock Yates
Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger. -- Sir Fulke Greville
The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing. -- James Salter
Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up. -- Ed Koch
It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42 -- Alaa Al Aswany
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them. -- Walter Savage Landor
No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union. -- Ellen G. White
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight. -- Emanuel Lasker

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