H. F. Ellis Quotes

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.

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

The best thing about money is not worrying about money.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

As an actor, I enjoy variety. That's a big thing for me.

I have to take some time to dream some new dreams. I feel like there's a treasure hunt in front of me. A treasure hunt that is speckled with and seeded by a deep-rooted wild freedom.

Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

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

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.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart.

New York is one of man's greatest achievements.

Alastair Moock is the second coming of John Prine.

Embrace what you have in common, celebrate what sets you apart.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

The mind paints before the brush.

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.

Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.

People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat.

I'm not trying to put any more pressure on me because it's the playoffs.

Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.

I think our culture promotes fear and shame.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.