Ellen Goodman Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ellen Goodman on Wise Famous Quotes.
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.
How come pleasure never makes it on to ... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?
My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."
The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.
What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.
We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.
[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.