Ralph Ellison Quotes

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Ralph Ellison

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• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Mom

• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Job
  • Age
  • Fashion

• With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Purpose

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Think
  • Way
  • Singing

• I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Together

• My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Career
  • Me
  • Struggle

• When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • May
  • Today
  • Struggle

• I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Waiting
  • Would

• I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Man
  • You
  • Rocky

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Years

• I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mistake

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Never

• What a lot of people don't realise about me is that I have no idea what's going on in the media. I don't pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don't enter into it at all on any level.

  

  Pete Burns
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Great
  • Care
  • End

• Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have different jobs. Some of us are artists, some of us are business people, some of us are scientists. But in the real world that lies beyond all this, we all have the same job: to minister to human hearts.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Action
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

  

  Val McDermid
  • She
  • Think
  • Couple

• The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Beginning
  • Lies
  • End