Ralph Ellison Quotes

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

Ralph Ellison

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• Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

  

  Randall Park
  • Audience
  • Kid
  • Against

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • You
  • Passion
  • Communication

• 'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • World
  • Way
  • Moment

• When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Good
  • Children
  • Too Much

• Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Forever

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Purpose

• Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Got

• I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Like
  • Rather
  • Cardio

• I never thought about being famous.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Famous

• A film of my life would never happen!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Like

• Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Effort
  • Same

• We're going to see how he does here in the next couple of days and how it reacts to treatment. It's that same type of pain that he's had. It's going to flare up. It's done that throughout his career and it's going to continue to do that. We just have to monitor it and see how he does.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Up
  • Done
  • Career

• An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Death
  • Successful
  • Individual

• I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Want

• In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Her

• What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Problem
  • Economy
  • Consequences

• Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Hope
  • Picture
  • Purple