Nelsan Ellis Quotes

Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'

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• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • School
  • Bad

• I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Like
  • Artist

• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose

• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Teachers
  • Degree

• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • WIld

• I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • World
  • Great
  • Friends

• My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Great
  • School
  • Tradition

• The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Never
  • Leader
  • Admit

• I feel like God has blessed me so much already, and he keeps continuing to bless me.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • God
  • Me
  • Feel

• The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Mexican
  • Sentimental
  • Them

• I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Mother
  • Woman
  • Problems

• I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Study

• For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Different
  • True
  • Beautiful

• I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It come partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very pernickety and oldmaidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Interesting
  • Alone
  • Habit

• 'Cause sometimes you feel tired, feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.

  

  Eminem
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Fall

• A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Time
  • World
  • Morning

• I want to - more than anything - to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That's what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Find

• Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'

  

  Nelsan Ellis