Ralph Ellison Quotes
Our task then is always to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed meaning and values of the few-and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false faces, and on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.
Ralph Ellison
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
Harrison Ford
My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
G. Hannelius
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
Gail Sheehy
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne
There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
A. J. Cook
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth II
My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
Victoria Pendleton
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara
I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
Yuna
I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
Calvin Klein
My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.
Chantal Akerman
I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.
Elmore Leonard
I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.
Jonathan Demme
I ain't gonna worry wrinkles in my brow,Cuz nothin's never gonna be alright nohow. No matter how I struggle and strive,I'll never get out of this world alive.
Hank Williams
You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself.
Mila Kunis
Our task then is always to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed meaning and values of the few-and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false faces, and on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.
Ralph Ellison
