Ellmann Richard Quotes & Sayings

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths. — Richard Ellmann

What's the fun in standing in the outskirts of love and feeling superior? There's no shame in having got it wrong. Whereas its a shame when you don't even give yourself the chance of getting it right. Better to have loved and lost... — Priya Basil

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up. — Greil Marcus

In Japan, I have my own line of dinnerware, but I'm not aggressive about pursuing those projects. — Nobu Matsuhisa

Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me. — Jessa Crispin

There was only one creature smarter than all of those doctors put together: the Internet. (Yes, it's a creature, okay?) I — Scott Adams

It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts. — Francis De Sales

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. — Harry S. Truman

The first time I walked alone, thirteen, I was terrified. A twig snapped under my shoe; my heart revved wildly. I'd walked these sidewalks a thousand times with my mom, yet I was scared by all her fears. Don't talk to strangers, walk quickly past parked cars, look both ways, all ways, always. Be alert. There was so damn much to remember to stay safe. — Aspen Matis

In the old days (aka the '90s), he could blow you off, say, two ways. Now, there are eighteen forms of rejection. We feel obliged to go through each and every form, just to re-re-re-reconfirm that he's not into us. — Anonymous

Wonder shows in the light of our eyes. Without it, they become dull and old. — Goldie Hawn

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36) — Jon Stewart

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann

She needs to be educated. She needs to know the contents of those books, there. She needs to understand the movements of the stars and the origins of the universe and the requirements of kindness. She needs to know mathematics and poetry. She must ask questions. She must seek to understand. She must understand the laws of cause and effect and unintended consequences. She must learn compassion and curiosity and awe. All of these things. We have to instruct her, Glerk. All three of us. It is a great responsibility." The — Kelly Barnhill

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes. — Gail Simone

This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet! — Swami Vivekananda

Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography. — Cornel West

I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.' — Denis Leary

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann

Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn