Joseph J. Ellis Quotes

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

Joseph J. Ellis

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• We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

  

  Dale Archer
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Support

• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Passion
  • Inspiration

• I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Live
  • Vision
  • Young

• So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Long
  • Military
  • Temptation

• That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Hand
  • Trouble
  • Egg

• À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.

  

  Victor Hugo

• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Friendship
  • Integrity

• I am. I was. I am not. I never am.

  

  Jack London

• To many, perhaps to most people outside the small company of the great scholars, past and present, 'Celtic' of any sort is, nonetheless, a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. … Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this Nation.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Different
  • Remember
  • America

• I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Music
  • Mexican

• I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Different
  • Women
  • Why

• For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Life
  • Real

• Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• We've been together since the womb. We met in the womb.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Together

• When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • People

• I worked in this bar called the Raincheck Room in the '60s; it used to be over on Santa Monica Boulevard, and, y'know, it was a pretty hip place. Lots of actors hung out there.

  

  Alex Rocco
  • Pretty

• When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Ideas
  • Fail

• Stand close around, ye Stygian set,with Dirce in the boat conveyed,Lest Charon, seeing her, forget,That he is old and she a shade.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • She
  • Boat

• I think that sparked something for us. We had been doing it all year, hitting hard, playing tough, playing physical, but I think being on that big Monday Night Football stage and playing a physical team like the Steelers made people notice.

  

  Bob Sanders
  • Think
  • Football
  • Playing

• Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

  

  Joseph J. Ellis
  • Trust
  • Fail
  • Afford