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
I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
Valeria Mazza
Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
B. J. Porter
As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've played well, but things haven't quite come together, ... I'm a little disappointed with the way I've played the last month and half, but that's golf.
Cristie Kerr
I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.
Donald Freed
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
