Ralph Ellison Quotes
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.Ralph Ellison
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender -
Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg -
One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
Ted Lyons -
There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian -
Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
Zaha Hadid
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
Kaitlin Olson -
All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
Nadia Comaneci -
I think I'm like a free spirit.
Bai Ling -
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
Bebe Rexha -
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang -
When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
Karen DeCrow -
I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
Randy Johnson -
Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
Maajid Nawaz -
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Lord Acton -
People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
Pamela Anderson -
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
Adam Brody -
Now in the mountains and fields of America, on its flatlands and in its jungles, in the wilderness or in the traffic of cities, on the banks of its great oceans or rivers, this world is beginning to tremble. Anxious hands are stretched forth, ready to die for what is theirs, to win those rights that were laughed at by one and all for 500 years.
Che Guevara -
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
Ralph Ellison