Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Alice Thomas Ellis

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• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Dancing
  • Last
  • Sponsor

• Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Been
  • Average
  • Months

• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Me
  • Couple
  • Garden

• I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Money
  • Cause

• I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Family
  • Appreciate

• Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

  

  Hal David
  • Emotion
  • Try
  • Others

• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Thought

• With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I like to be against the odds.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Like
  • Against
  • Odds

• As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Lose

• Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Money
  • Birthday
  • Bank

• President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

  

  Joan Halifax
  • World
  • Compassion

• If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Strong
  • Australia
  • Currency

• I don't vote.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul

• If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • You
  • Joy
  • Write

• The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Learn
  • Clear
  • Properly

• Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Why
  • Mad
  • Books