Elevate those guns a little lower.

- Andrew Jackson

Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.

- Common

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

- Denis Diderot

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

- Eddie Vedder

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

- Henry David Thoreau

Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become.

- John Ridley

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

- James Wolk

There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach.

- Kevin Spacey

When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.

- Mariella Frostrup

Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time.

- Michael Douglas

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

- Saul Williams

I truly believe in the value that stories have in being able to elevate humanity and make the world a better place.

- Stephanie Allain

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

- Tom Stoppard

When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.

- Timothy Ferriss