Ethan Suplee Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
-
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
-
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
-
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
-
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
-
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
-
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
-
Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
-
An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
-
Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother's gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun's rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter's yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration - whoosh.
-
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
-
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
-
I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.
-
I love being brown, so I love using Guerlain Terracotta Bronzing Powder. I use it everywhere: my forehead, my cheekbones, a little bit by my chin. It gives me a golden balance that I really like. I also use the Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector for my highlighter right underneath my eye. It's a pretty color - it's not too much and not too little.
-
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
-
I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.
-
An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
-
I think there's a passion for God like never before.
-
And suppose that you lived in that forest in France Where the average young person just hasn't a chance To escape from the perilous pants-eating plants! But your pants are safe! You're a fortunate guy. And you ought to be shouting, 'How lucky am I!'
-
I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.
-
Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them. And then, there's the example of really chipping away at something to create something great. I don't believe that one is more reliable than the other.
-
When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'
-
And our dreams are who we are.
-
I hope that people like us next year like they liked us last year.
