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I'm comfortable with my body but I don't like my bum - I think it's too big.
— Jennifer Ellison
And yet I am what they think I am.
— Ralph Ellison
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
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
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
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
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.
— Harlan 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
We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end.
— Harlan Ellison
Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.
— Harlan Ellison
DIscuss "narking" as a character flaw.
— Harlan Ellison
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
— Larry 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
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
— Ralph Ellison
Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
— Ralph Ellison
My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!
— Jennifer 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
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— Ralph 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
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
— Ralph Ellison
Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.
— Keith Ellison
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
— Larry Ellison
I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.
— Harlan Ellison
It's over, Sam. Finally."
"Yeah," he said. "I guess it is."
"Turn out the light, Sam."
Sam reached for the switch and turned out the light. — Michael Grant
"Yeah," he said. "I guess it is."
"Turn out the light, Sam."
Sam reached for the switch and turned out the light. — Michael Grant
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
Call me Jack-the-Bear, for I am in a state of hibernation.
— Ralph 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
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
Let's all throw unhappiness overboard.
— Jan Ellison
If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.
— Harlan 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
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
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
People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?
— Harlan Ellison
What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
— Larry Ellison
I banana the softest banana in the world; it's a new game, seeing just how soft I can banana while still banana-ing.
— Kate Ellison
Live with your head in the lion's mouth.
— Ralph Ellison
All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.
— Ralph Ellison
So, if you were to divide your school in to subsections of the animal kingdom, or, let's just say into primates ...
— Kate Ellison
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
— Ralph Ellison
If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be 'oh, she's got a spot on her face, she's having a bad day'. That can be quite cruel.
— Jennifer Ellison
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
— Ralph Ellison
God is A.W.E.S.O.M.E! HE is Always Working Extraordinary Supernatural On-time Miracles Everyday
— Sommer Ellison
Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
— Larry 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
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
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