Ishmael Reed Quotes

Dualism:: In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man I am outside of history. I wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage. I am outside of history. Its hungrier than i thot.

Ishmael Reed

• Ralph Ellison
• Invisible Man

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• I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Sport
  • Sounds

• We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Want
  • Finding

• I'm an actor, so I like costumes.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Costumes

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Home
  • City
  • Violence

• I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Always
  • Mysterious
  • Been

• Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Poetry

• When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Remember
  • Baby
  • Calm

• One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.

  

  Liza Donnelly
  • People
  • Interesting

• I use Redken color on my hair and use mild shampoos that don't strip your hair of color. If I need to, I'll use a good colored mousse in between.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Color

• I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

  

  Freeman Dyson

• The thing to remember about Obama is he doesn't care if you like him or I like him or somebody else does. He literally would rather do homework with his kids than be around other politicians. Does this make him unpopular at times? Yes. Does it make him ineffective? Most certainly not.

  

  James Carville
  • Kids
  • Remember

• What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.'

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Feeling
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Writing
  • Book

• Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.

  

  Alex Pettyfer
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Free

• I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.

  

  Jason Calacanis

• Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

  

  Alex Cox
  • Done

• My primary responsibility is to be funny.

  

  Al Madrigal
  • Funny
  • Responsibility

• What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wish
  • Sleep
  • Thoughts

• Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.

  

  Annie Leonard
  • Identity
  • Consumers
  • Shop

• I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Trust

• When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Future
  • Divorce

• Dualism:: In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man I am outside of history. I wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage. I am outside of history. Its hungrier than i thot.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Invisible Man