Jamellah Ellis Quotes & Sayings

There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. — Eric Hoffer

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent. — Immanuel Kant

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned. — Ian Fleming

Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say. — Henri Matisse

In the past few months I've become religious. I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance. Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts. — Stewart Lee

I played piano, I learned a lot about music. — Maximilian Schell

That's not right. That's not even wrong. — Wolfgang Pauli

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. — Nelson Mandela

As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling when young, and of worse than falls when they are older. — Thomas Watson

The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me. — Betsy Byars

There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves are good. I try and embrace all those things. I try and embrace the times where I'm not sure of myself or I'm like, 'Is this going to work? Is this going to land?' — Chelsea Handler