Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
-
I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
-
I'm a little angry in life.
-
I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
-
I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
-
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
-
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
-
I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
-
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
-
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
-
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
-
Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
-
I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
-
I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
-
What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
-
You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
-
Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
-
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
-
Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
-
I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.
-
A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.
-
There's no way we can invent enough stuff for a company of Merck's size.
-
Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.
-
Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.
