Ellowa Quotes & Sayings

Defense. That' the thing I'm known for. — Tyson Chandler

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace. — Max Lucado

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s. — Sarah Hall

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning. — Vaclav Havel

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me. — Franz Grillparzer

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people. — Susan Sontag

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs. — Alan Cohen

I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished. — Ice Cube

But the Semitic names did possess meaning in Semitic languages: they were the words for familiar objects ('aleph = ox, beth = house, gimel = camel, daleth = door, and so on). These Semitic words were related "acrophonically" to the Semitic consonants to which they refer: that is, the first letter of the word for the object was also the letter named for the object ('a, b, g, d, and so on). In addition, the earliest forms of the Semitic letters appear in many cases to have been pictures of those same objects. All these features made the forms, names, and sequence of Semitic alphabet letters easy to remember. Many — Jared Diamond

Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility. — John M Swomley

Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me. — Kate Ashfield