Jeff Buckley

I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.

American Musician

Elaine Sciolino

The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.

American Writer

Sukarno

To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.

Indonesian Statesman

Isabella Bird

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.

English Explorer

James Turrell

I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.

American Artist

This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.

Lawrence M. Krauss

As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.

American Physicist

Erma Bombeck

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

American Journalist

Ernest Renan

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

French Philosopher

Katie Lee

My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.

American Chef

Elixir often implies a mystical quality, especially in fantasy or fiction.

Mythical Connotations

In modern times, 'elixir' may be used jokingly to refer to something not truly magical.

Not Real

People use 'elixir' metaphorically to describe a solution to a problem.

Metaphorical Use

Elixir is generally pleasant-tasting, making it easier to drink medicine.

Medicinal Taste

Elixirs can contain alcohol, not just for taste but as a preservative in medicine.

Sweet and Alcoholic

When related to drinks, 'elixir' can suggest a distinct, perhaps sophisticated concoction.

Beverage Context

In bars, the term may refer to specialty drinks with various herbs and spices.

Craft Cocktails

 and the dream of doing that in this body in this world forever is the first and simplest kind of immortality story, and it might at first sound implausible, but actually, almost every culture in human history has had some myth or legend of an elixir of life or a fountain of youth

The 4 stories we tell...

 to securing his historical legacy because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign,

The incredible history...

 The modern elder is as much an intern as they are a mentor, because they realize, in a world that is changing so quickly, their beginners' mind and their catalytic curiosity is a life-affirming elixir, not just for themselves but for everyone around them.

What baby boomers can...

 but it needs more help for the final stretch. Each coffee company has a head buyer who carefully selects beans from all over the world. Logistics teams manage bean delivery routes, and brave baristas across the city serve this caffeinated elixir

The life cycle of a cup...

 Now, us human beings, we're always on the lookout for the elixir of youth. We don't want to get old, and rightly so. Why should we, especially if you can afford it? And this gives you an indication of what the plant looks like before.

Humble plants that hide...

 it's no bigger than a cigarette lighter but it possesses a potent elixir and when it lives near people it often takes shelter where they do in countries like India scorpion stings are a serious public health issue particularly among

World's Deadliest...

 to a full night of sleep, and without embarrassment or that unfortunate stigma of laziness. And in doing so, we can be reunited with the most powerful elixir of life, the Swiss Army knife of health, as it were.

Sleep is your superpower...

 luxury good among China's growing elite selling for up to hundreds of dollars a bottle the product is made by steeping a tiger's bones in rice wine some believed drinking the resulting elixir will cause

What's Driving Tigers...

 who, having climbed the highest mountain, tasted the elixir of the success of eradicating a disease, wanted to do it again. And over the last 27 years, Seva's programs in 15 countries