Elusive Quotes

You look at me -- I played 17 years and didn't get one. That had a lot to do with how long I played. I was still chasing that elusive, one last goal that I had left to accomplish in my career. Unfortunately, it never happened. But I'll tell you what: I did try. - Warren Moon

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? - John James Audubon

Words are sometimes sensitive instruments of precision with which delicate operations may be performed and swift, elusive truths may be touched; often they are clumsy tools with which we grope in the dark toward truths more inaccessible but no less s. - Helen Merell Lynd

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do. - George Bernard Shaw

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Sibert Cather

We're not being elusive... I think we have to wait until we're absolutely backed into a corner. - Mike Piazza

We would very much like to work together again. And we've talked about it for years. For some reason it's been elusive. She would take a movie idea to a network and I would not be available. And of course Voyager happened and it's just been - it's not been in the cards. But I'd give my eye-teeth to work with her. - Kate Mulgrew

We wanted to put the ball in the hands of the best athlete as much as possible. He's exciting to watch, very elusive, very quick and has great vision. When he has the ball, good things seem to happen. - Larry Cunha

We need one of our keys to be possession. Jon gives us some quickness up front. He's very elusive and he's a good dodger. - Andy Zantow