H. F. Ellis Quotes

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

With "Taipei" Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

I don't know why I write what I write.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly. "The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.

Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done.

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.

God never puts something in our path where He has not already equipped us to handle.

No task is too big or too small for God. He cares for us. He wants the best for us. More importantly He just wants us to include Him in our lives by trusting in Him.

Jesus put his life on the line because He trusted that His Father had a greater plan.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

Short term memory makes no difference if you've lost your mind.

Crowbars give you that personal touch you don't get with gun-killin'.

Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.

If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.

You take my imperfections and you love them divine.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

Integrity expects integrity.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

Beauty is a perilous gift.

As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.