Foulkrod Ellis Quotes & Sayings

We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are. — Anais Nin

I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s a pleasure. — David Mandel

Ibsen: "Education is the capacity to confront the situations posed by life. — Jon Lee Anderson

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed. — Rick Perlstein

You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's. — Elvis Costello

Sometimes we miss happy because we're always looking for something else. We worry, we give in to fear, we compare ourselves to others, we're planning and plotting, but happiness is here, it's a choice, day to day. — Cathy Lamb

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility. — Sharon Salzberg

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people. — Jose Andres

Life on the road is very different from a normal, day to day life, and sometimes that surrealistic existence can have an effect on you, you tend to forget that's not really how things are supposed to be. But there comes a point where you have to pace yourself and find a place in your mind where you can be real. — Joe Nichols

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians. — Bertrand Russell

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue. — George Mason

Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony! — Jeffrey R. Holland

Is time real? ... In one sense, it's a silly question. The "reality" of something is only an interesting issue if its a well-defined concept whose actual existence is in question, like Bigfoot or supersymmetry. For concepts like "time," which are unambiguously part of a useful vocabulary we have for describing the world, talking about "reality" is just a bit of harmless gassing. They may be emergent or fundamental, but they're definitely there. — Sean Carroll