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It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it. — Jan Ellison

And yet I am what they think I am. — Ralph Ellison

They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks. — Harlan Ellison

Think of it as you want it, not as it is! — Larry Ellison

The real name for 'science' is magic. — Harlan Ellison

Curiouser and curiouser, he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book. — Danielle Ellison

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur. — Harlan Ellison

I was blind to the truth. Emotions do that. They make you a fool. — Kate Avery Ellison

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. — Ralph Ellison

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie. — Ralph Ellison

It was possible to rush forward, looking back, and break your neck. — Jan Ellison

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want. — Larry Ellison

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded. — Jennifer Ellison

He glanced up once, eyes bored. Please stop talking. I'm trying to eat. — Kate Avery Ellison

That is what a very Christian message is: to care about each other and to help those who need it the most. — Brooke Ellison

Being held down and secured just made me all the harder. I'll probably be speaking in tongues by the time this is over. — John Ellison

When I discover who I am, I'll be free. — Ralph Ellison

Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion. — Harlan Ellison

DIscuss "narking" as a character flaw. — Harlan Ellison

Children will end up a world away, whether you want them to or not - unaware of the havoc being wreaked upon their histories back home. — Jan Ellison

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are. — Ralph Ellison

I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when I get there, but that's why someone invented the fine art of improv. Or, when that fails, stalling. — Danielle Ellison

Boy on a Train From — Ralph Ellison

And a killer was out there, plotting his next murder. Damn. He watched her mood shift, playful to alert and serious. — J.T. Ellison

I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy. — Jennifer Ellison

Boo'ful," she said, "life could be so diff'rent - "
"But it never is," I said. — Ralph Ellison

Where were all the people I loved? I could feel them, flung about, the distance between us a crushing weight that I myself had put there. — Jan Ellison

Be your own father, young man — Ralph Ellison

because what is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted. — Ralph Ellison

He's only a man. Remember that. He's only a man! — Ralph Ellison

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself. — Ralph Ellison

I want to be a young mum and if I didn't have to work I'd have them tomorrow. I'd like three! — Jennifer Ellison

The heart is large, and there is more than one material in the bucket we call love. — Jan Ellison

Ride 'em, cowboy. Give 'em hell and bananas. — Ralph Ellison

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020. — Larry Ellison

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. — Larry Ellison

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid. — Larry Ellison

Call me Jack-the-Bear, for I am in a state of hibernation. — Ralph Ellison

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class. — Keith Ellison

We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up. — Keith Ellison

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more. — Keith Ellison

He only wanted to use me for something. Everyone wanted to use you for some purpose. — Ralph Ellison

(about Ivy) She was good at rescuing things and wretched at doing anything about it afterward. — Kate Avery Ellison

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. — Keith Ellison

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three. — Harlan Ellison

Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think. — Larry Ellison

The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles. — Harlan Ellison

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. — Larry Ellison

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. — Harlan Ellison

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be. — Jennifer Ellison

Love's young dream, alas is over
Yet my strains of love shall hover — Jan Ellison

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. — Jennifer Ellison

All of it was rushing together, making a psychedelic mess of my heart. — Jan Ellison

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. — Ralph Ellison

Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine. — Ellison Onizuka

You have to act and act now. — Larry Ellison

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. — Ralph Ellison

There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon. — Harlan Ellison

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded. — Larry Ellison

When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you. — Keith Ellison

I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious. — Jennifer Ellison

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want. — Larry Ellison

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative. — Larry Ellison

That voice was happy to throw a virtual catalogue of prior lapses in good judgment back in my face, as if it thought I needed reminding. — Tara Ellison

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?' — Larry Ellison

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy. — Harlan Ellison

The machine masturbated and we had to take it or die. — Harlan Ellison

We had reached the moment of final nightness. — Harlan Ellison

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years. — Larry Ellison

I ran away into the dark, laughing so hard I feared I might rupture myself. — Ralph Ellison

I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom. — Harlan Ellison

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. — Harlan Ellison

Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it? — Ralph Ellison

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits. — Larry Ellison

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. — Ralph Ellison

Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, the famous "Burma Surgeon. — Ralph Ellison

One by one, the moths of the night took their release. And she watched them float off like butterflies, silhouetted in the glow of morning. — Ellison Blackburn

I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected. — Harlan Ellison

But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant. — Ralph Ellison

Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them. — Brooke Ellison

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous. — Harlan Ellison

Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it. — Larry Ellison

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in. — Jennifer Ellison

It's the little things that find us out, the little things we refuse to do in order to avoid doing the big things that can save us. — Ralph Ellison

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. — Ralph Ellison

Gin, jazz and dreams were not enough. — Ralph Ellison

while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change. — Ralph Ellison

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds ... to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation. — Ellison Onizuka

I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning. — Larry Ellison

Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory — Harlan Ellison

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad. — Jennifer Ellison

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul. — Keith Ellison

For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words. — Ralph Ellison

I have hobbies. I do all sorts of ridiculous things, — Larry Ellison

The coolly logical part of her brain noted almost sardonically that Edilio had a superpower after all: being Edilio. — Micheal Grant

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow. — Larry Ellison

You must never be afraid to go there. — Harlan Ellison

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live. — Ralph Ellison

To say more is to say less. — Harlan Ellison

My hole is warm and full of light. — Ralph Ellison