Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Alice Thomas Ellis

• Innocence
• Combination
• Adolescence
• Isolence

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• I liked to play dress-up.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Up
  • Play
  • Liked

• I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Game

• I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Want
  • Name

• I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Play
  • Bee

• 'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Christian
  • Painting
  • Fruit

• The Loopt mobile app is all about giving you the latest local deals and insider tips.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Giving
  • You
  • Mobile

• I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Crazy

• L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Fake
  • Superficial

• Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

  

  Big Bill Broonzy
  • Happy
  • Wife
  • Guitar

• Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Passion
  • Painting
  • Voice

• You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Stop
  • Leadership

• There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter. Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Up
  • Simple
  • Reason

• We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • People

• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Sex

• Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Car
  • Air
  • Los Angeles

• If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Death
  • Results
  • Innocence

• I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Lost
  • Innocence
  • Longing

• The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.

  

  Blake Judd
  • Band
  • My Life
  • Combination

• Socialism tends to destroy wealth. Socialism does this by draining its vitality away. It does this by destroying the desirability of wealth as a wholesome value. Socialism kills the chance that any community can survive by browbeating the concept of vested ownership, on which community survival is always dependent in the end.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Community
  • Wealth
  • Socialism

• Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Innocence
  • Combination
  • Adolescence