Ellmann Richard Quotes

#1. I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.

Joe Rogan

#2. But there I was, surrendering to a most extraordinary call from the grave, the mass-grave-to-be of Europe, as if somewhere ahead lay an iron gateway, slightly ajar, leading to a low and sombre country, with an incalculable crowd on sides eager to pass into it, and bearing me along.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

Alexander Pushkin

#4. Travis sighed. "I just said that because," he scratched his short hair nervously, "I don't want to ruin anything, Pigeon. I wouldn't even know how to go about being who you deserve. I was just trying to get it worked out in my head.

Jamie McGuire

#5. Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

Richard Ellmann

#6. I love you forever, my baby you'll be

Robert Munsch

#7. I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

Goldie Hawn

#8. I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B. Anthony, U.S. reformer and suffragist

George Washington

#9. Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

Richard Ellmann

#10. It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

Mike Leigh

#11. Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me.

Jessa Crispin

#12. That's a male pornographic fantasy that we're buttoned-up all day and let our boobs hang out at night. The truth is, some girls are very girly and feminine, and they love to wear makeup and high heels. Other girls are more tomboyish, and they don't.

Cara Santa Maria

#13. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

Richard Ellmann

#14. Trust wisely and believe in yourself, in your vision.

Melissa McClone

#15. His young man's limbs, sleek in their dark male pride, seemed to disdain the covering offered them by the brief shorts and striped jersey. His body might have been naked, like his full, muscled throat, which rose, round and proud as the male organ of a flower, from the neck of his sweater.

Stella Gibbons