Shomari Ellison Quotes & Sayings

No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have clashed and contended with each other, till one or the other has gained the supremacy. — James Madison

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken. — Ernest Hemingway,

Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise. — Napoleon Hill

Staying away from news channels, print, and social media makes one realize, that the world actually is a beautiful place to live. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original. — William Friedkin

The love she felt was so hard that she had to squeeze him to her until her arms were tired. — Carson McCullers

Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory. — Albert Einstein

If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,
who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing but the presence of God can reveal and expel self. — Andrew Murray

What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it is that you might use to try to control the world by closing it out. I want to tell you just to live in the mess. Throw yourself out into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm telling you to live in it. Try and get it. Take chances, make your own work, take pride in it. Seize the moment. — Joan Didion

I've stopped wanting to do any work at all. All work is bullshit. Everyone knows that. No matter how many telephones and extensions, no matter how many secretaries, no matter how many names in the rolodex. It's all bullshit. — Irena Klepfisz

Being present means just that. Feeling your feelings as they come up. Experiencing your sensations as they occur. — Callisto Media