Ralph Ellison Quotes
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.Ralph Ellison
Quotes to Explore
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
Galileo Galilei -
Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon -
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
Pablo Neruda -
LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
Dan Gilbert -
One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
Zooey Deschanel
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
Carl Lewis -
I'd done an EP, and nothing came from that, and I didn't know where to go from there.
Fleur East -
Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.
J. D. Pardo -
I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'
Nancy O'Dell -
Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
Quentin Crisp -
History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much-discussed couplet:
H. P. Lovecraft -
«Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»
Mariano Rajoy -
To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.
Jimmy Carter -
I came to art because I wanted to escape the other regulations of the society. The whole society is so political. But the irony is that my art becomes more and more political.
Ai Weiwei -
With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.
James Rollins -
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
Dolph Lundgren
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Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys.
Michael Gurian -
It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.
Curtis Armstrong -
Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.
Emerson Fittipaldi -
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
Ralph Ellison