Ellen Goodman Quotes
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
Quotes to Explore
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I can always go back to education.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.
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When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
