H. F. Ellis Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

People are afraid to merge.

but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.

I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

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

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

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

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.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.

Having faith in God means trusting in Him even when everything inside of you wants to take control.

Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.

I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.

I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life.

In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

The exciting thing about seeing a new show is that you are taken on a journey of surprises, if you know what's coming it takes away the fun.

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

Beauty is the child of love.

Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.