#me

It's not every day you do something that's never been done before. ↗

— Sean Elliott

#before #day #done #every #every day

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#appearances #arrogance #arrogant #beautiful #beauty

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#act #because #clay #could #crime

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. ↗

— Don Ellis

#assumed #audience #come #compromising #expect

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him. ↗

— Ruth Ellis

#david #did #hear #him #i

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#like #me #mind #stupid #talk

So I'm sitting in that damn chair, ready to die, and I say to her, 'You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I'm so damn glad you're going to kill me instead of some brainless, toothless druggie." Beckett smiled again at the memory of his almost-murder. "Then she traded the knife for her lips, and now she works for me." Beckett put his hands behind his head and flexed his giant biceps. "She won't tell me who hired her to come here. She's the deadliest person I've ever encountered. I still think she might kill me, but I can't stop looking at her. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#debra-anastasia #homeless #poughkeepsie #beauty

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#arms #cake #far #gordon #legs

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#after #communication #critics #form #gave