Ellen Meloy Quotes

Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and achievements of eminence. However, there is nothing quite like an anomaly to suck attention away from the droning census records. A suicide hinted at emotion and thought. A closet door was flung open and daylight flooded a skeleton.

Ellen Meloy

• Emotion
• Records
• Suicide
• Purposes
• Achievements
• Self-knowledge

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• What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Space
  • Media

• I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Funny

• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Progress
  • Depression
  • Slow

• The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • Man
  • Meaning

• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Hard
  • Novel
  • Keep

• I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Hair
  • Choice
  • Days

• My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Actor

• Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.

  

  Halsey
  • Trying
  • Control
  • Artist

• The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

  

  Origen
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Believe

• You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Trying

• Misandry – or man hating – is the equivalent of misogyny. If you are unaware of misandry, welcome to the club.

  

  Warren Farrell

• But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Violence

• We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Lost

• I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Band
  • Road

• If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

  

  Jean Racine
  • Up
  • Believe

• Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

  

  Jenny Lawson
  • God
  • Writing
  • Real

• It takes a long time to get good at something, so it's important to begin as early as possible so that we can improve and begin to see the compounding benefits of the work over time.

  

  Priscilla Chan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.

  

  John Ritter
  • Guy

• Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Trying
  • Fall
  • Hair

• Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Language

• Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and achievements of eminence. However, there is nothing quite like an anomaly to suck attention away from the droning census records. A suicide hinted at emotion and thought. A closet door was flung open and daylight flooded a skeleton.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Emotion
  • Records
  • Suicide