Kerry Ellis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  • The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

  • They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

  • There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

  • Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

  • The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  • While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

  • Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

  • The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

  • Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.