H. F. Ellis Quotes

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

I think we've all lost some kind of feeling.

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

Price. You're priceless.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service.

Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

People are afraid to merge.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

One of the things I've realized is how portable God is. No really, He's everywhere!

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

I try to be as realistic as possible.