In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.


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If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should u...
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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
Girls get screwed.
Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of...
ELLEN HOPKINS
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice ...
ELLEN GLASGOW
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
ELLEN PARR
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means...
ELLEN KEY
All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offeri...
ELLEN KEY
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
ELLEN GLASGOW
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to ...
ELLEN GOODMAN
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day...
ELLEN GLASGOW
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it ...
ELLEN GLASGOW
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She...
ELLEN DEGENERES
We cannot look at the child who has been raped and offer the theological maxim that God will draw so...
ELLEN VAUGHN
Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abun...
ELLEN VAUGHN
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
ELLEN GLASGOW
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
ELLEN GLASGOW
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at r...
ELLEN GOODMAN
Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
ELLEN GLASGOW
People tend to remember my performances, not me.
ELLEN BARKIN
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ELLEN GOODMAN
He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent...
ELLEN GLASGOW
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffec...
ELLEN KEY
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
ELLEN BARKIN
I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, So...
ELLEN DEGENERES
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
ELLEN DEGENERES
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.
ELLEN SIMON
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
ELLEN GOODMAN
I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is c...
ELLEN DEGENERES
We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.
ELLEN WOOD
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
ELLEN GLASGOW
Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.
ELLEN HERMAN
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
ELLEN GOODMAN
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that yo...
ELLEN GOODMAN
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
ELLEN ULLMAN