Ellingsworth Quotes & Sayings

Images,wounds. That is all he can see. And the images are dissolving little by little, like the setting sun, leaving only the wounds. — Roberto Bolano

Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff
it's gonna break. You got your biggest, fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It's got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going to go out. Or go to a yacht basin any place in the world. Nobody is smiling, and I'll tell you why. Something broke that morning. The generator's out; the microwave oven doesn't work ... Things just don't mean happiness. — Ross Perot

The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain. — Marlo Morgan

I guess even when you can see everything, some things will always be a surprise. — Robin Benway

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options — Thomas Sowell

Golf is a lot like sex. It's something you can enjoy all your life. And if you remain an amateur, you get to pick your own playing partners. — Jess Sweetser

Looking out over the lake, I felt enveloped in the most peaceful, loving utopia. — Laurie Kahn

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level. — Wendy Kopp

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce

Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible. — Mel Martinez

I could've said a thousand things in that moment, and all of them would've been true. I'd like to travel - Florence and Thailand and Prague. I'd like to write books. I'd like to fall in love a thousand times. Live hard and desperate and full, my pulse pounding like a bass drum. And when I wake up one morning suddenly, surprisingly, a grown-up, I'd like to be sure in the knowledge that I enjoyed it. Every fucking second. — Megan Stielstra