Paul Ellis Quotes

#1. from yet another pocket inside his overcoat he pulled an owl - a real, live, rather ruffled-looking owl - a long quill, and a roll of parchment.

J.K. Rowling

#2. To have direction is to be guided

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

George Papandreou

#4. Reflections on Careers in Quantitative Finance

Carnegie Mellon's Steve Shreve is out with an interesting post on careers in quantitative finance, with his commentary on the changing landscape in quantitative research and the implications for financial education.

Paul Ellis

#5. Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#6. People divide themselves by their response to truth.

Paul Ellis

#7. On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.

Paul Dano

#8. So ... " Kimball looks at his book helplessly. "There's nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?"
"Well." I sigh. "He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. " Really stumped, I offer, "He ... ate a balanced diet.

Bret Easton Ellis

#9. One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self-fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something - your dreams, your image of the future.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#10. There's a moment of sheer terror when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park

Bret Easton Ellis

#11. And Satan sighed and shook his head, played harp amongst the flames. 'It's Hell up there in Heaven too, for all that that is worth. Heaven is just a lie of mine to make it Hell on Earth.

Nick Cave

#12. George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

Adam McKay

#13. We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

Edie Brickell

#14. Genuine acceptance is based on knowledge. You cant truly accept someone unless you know them.

Paul Ellis

#15. You will do great and terrible things, Bethany Rudan. Just make sure you know the difference before you choose to act. And look to the boy, the tracker. He anchors you.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#16. Whatever you experience in your life is really but the outpicturing of your own thoughts and beliefs. Now, you can change these thoughts and beliefs, and then the outer picture must change too. The outer picture cannot change until you change your thought.

Emmet Fox

#17. Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.

Paul Ellis

#18. Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#19. I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

Garrison Keillor

#20. Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

Paul Merton

#21. Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable ... or make it your last.

T.A. Barron

#22. Alastair Moock is the second coming of John Prine.

Ellis Paul

#23. One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#24. Embrace what you have in common, celebrate what sets you apart.

Ellis Paul

#25. - Why are you helping me? she asked abruptly. He paused for a moment in thought. Because you need it, he said, and because I can.

Ted Oswald

#26. Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

Les Paul