Ellenmaefranklin Quotes & Sayings

After politics, journalism has always been the preferred career of the ambitious but lazy second-rater. — Gore Vidal

You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.

This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness. — Kristen Henderson

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade. — Leo Durocher

Be what you are, all that you are. Wear yourself proudly. It will require that you draw a line, but that line in the sand is your courage. — Christy Hall

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself. — Nikki Giovanni

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind. — Mitch Landrieu

To give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession. — Malvina Hoffman

But his voice was broken, his face pale, — Leo Tolstoy

You can die of the wrong thought as quick as of a bullet. — Helen Jacobs

Don't worry about what people think, because once it's all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don't love you will, too. — Rick Bragg

Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China. — William J. Clinton

Fear is the short road to death and this world,
Changed by the flux of decay:
Survival is the exception for weary men.

From the new book The Waning — Ellen Mae Franklin

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation. — Oliver Goldsmith

Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it. — Zeeshan Ahmed

I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines. — Fred Allen