Jennifer Ellison Quotes

I'm an addict for underwear.

Jennifer Ellison

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• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Truth
  • Parents

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Important
  • Man
  • Prayer

• I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Desire

• I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Age
  • Mom
  • Old

• People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Mysteries
  • Obsess

• I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• 'Twilight' is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Love
  • Story

• Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Effort
  • Opportunities

• I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Wrong

• As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • May
  • Day

• I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Judge

• You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Look

• When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Game
  • Violence

• The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart

• I was involved in the 'reformicon' effort in 2013-2014, which was explicitly, 'We can't just Xerox Reagan.' In the spirit of Reagan, actually, we could rethink things - maybe we need to think more about job-training programs, earned income tax credit, adjust the tax code.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Job
  • Effort
  • Training

• I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People
  • Friends
  • Black

• The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Miracle

• Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Time
  • Together

• I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.

  

  Garrett Atkins
  • Guy
  • Better
  • Place

• I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

  

  Laurieann Gibson

• Staying on the path of who you are and not trying to be anyone else is the key to anything you're doing.

  

  Jimi Westbrook Little Big Town
  • Trying
  • Path

• All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• I'm an addict for underwear.

  

  Jennifer Ellison