Ella Maillart quote: "Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them."

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather,...
ELLA MAILLART

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you wit...
ELLA MAILLART

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects o...
ELLA MAILLART

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
ELLA MAILLART

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
ELLA MAILLART

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we...
ELLA MAILLART

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our c...
ELLA MAILLART

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many mont...
ELLA MAILLART

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
ELLA MAILLART

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice i...
ELLA MAILLART

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power ha...
ELLA MAILLART

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Li...
ELLA MAILLART

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
ELLA MAILLART

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness...
ELLA MAILLART

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms...
ELLA MAILLART

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they...
ELLA MAILLART

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane f...
ELLA MAILLART

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully al...
ELLA MAILLART

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as s...
ELLA MAILLART

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
ELLA MAILLART

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin ar...
ELLA MAILLART

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
ELLA MAILLART

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the ...
ELLA MAILLART

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusiv...
ELLA MAILLART

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
ELLA MAILLART

I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just f...
ELLA HENDERSON

Dressing up and doing photo shoots was a side of the industry I really didn't think I would like...
ELLA HENDERSON

My hairstylist uses the Bumble & Bumble hairspray, which is the best smelling hairspray there is...
ELLA EYRE

I work out most days, normally first thing, and then I just see where the day takes me. I recipe tes...
ELLA WOODWARD

I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heart...
ELLA HENDERSON

I don't have one favourite spot - I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit ...
ELLA WOODWARD

My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to f...
ELLA LEYA

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I d...
ELLA FITZGERALD

Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to ...
ELLA HIGGINSON

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the ...
ELLA HIGGINSON

But one of the things that has to be faced is
ELLA BAKER

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, becau...
ELLA BAKER

Because our children had had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They wer...
ELLA BAKER

When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.
ELLA WOODWARD

Home-made smoothies are a great way of satisfying a sweet tooth. Adding in things like frozen banana...
ELLA WOODWARD

Did I do all right?
ELLA FITZGERALD

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
ELLA FITZGERALD

I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different f...
ELLA FITZGERALD

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration,...
ELLA FITZGERALD

The only thing better than singing is more singing.
ELLA FITZGERALD

When I heard 'Back to Black' from Amy Winehouse, I was, like, 'Wow.' To hear such a ...
ELLA HENDERSON

Some people will love my books, some people will hate them, and others will regard them with odd cur...
ELLA DOMINGUEZ

The first recipe I made was a disaster. I'd been chopping and pressing dates to create a raw bro...
ELLA WOODWARD

Because true beauty comes from within, from the person you are.
SARA ELLA

I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top a...
ELLA HENDERSON

I always have Giorgio Armani's Luminous Silk Foundation, Bobbi Brown's Jenna lipstick, and m...
ELLA EYRE

A delicious smoothie is a really easy way of taking on lots of amazing skin boosting ingredients and...
ELLA WOODWARD

I learned a lot from Rudimental's live set. It's all about good feelings, good vibes and a g...
ELLA EYRE

When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.
ELLA HENDERSON

I've always been pretty lucky with my skin. I did notice a big change when I changed my diet and...
ELLA WOODWARD

I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every...
ELLA EYRE

I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of word...
ELLA EYRE

I love you. That is the beginning, that is the end. That is everything.
ELLA FRANK

I often do crazy siren noises, or, like, a high-pitched dolphin, just to make sure that all my range...
ELLA HENDERSON

Anger is only the will to reform.
EDEN ELLA

It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat...
ELLA HENDERSON

It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.
ELLA FITZGERALD

My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, ...
ELLA EYRE

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we h...
ELLA BAKER

I always say that when it comes to picking a single, firstly you have to go with what feels right an...
ELLA HENDERSON

The stuggle is eternal. The tribe increase. Somebody else carries on.
ELLA BAKER

Food was a big part of our family gatherings, but it was usually pasta. We didn't eat that well....
ELLA WOODWARD

A fan sent me a pair of fluffy winter socks, and I was like, 'Oh, that's cool. I'll wear...
ELLA HENDERSON

It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glyn...
ELLA EYRE

I'm not a fussy eater, but when I'm travelling, I try to stick to the same regime and just h...
ELLA HENDERSON

I like to say I believe in ghosts so I don't get haunted by one.
ELLA HENDERSON

I reviewed the textbook and I liked what I saw. I saw an academic text that steers clear of being a ...
ELLA BELL

People criticised me for using too many exclamation marks and the word 'awesome' too much, b...
ELLA WOODWARD

Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, ...
ELLA FITZGERALD

It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.
ELLA HENDERSON

On a normal day, I crawl out of bed before 8 A.M., have a protein shake, chuck my gym kit on, and go...
ELLA EYRE

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I lear...
ELLA WOODWARD

I've always had loads of teddy bears.
ELLA EYRE

If you're struggling with that sweet tooth, try making healthy sugar swaps using things like hon...
ELLA WOODWARD

We are going to have that thing that everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing tha...
ELLA HARPER

Just because you’re my Princess doesn’t mean I won’t fuck you like a slut.
ELLA DOMINGUEZ

If you don't know how it works, you shouldn't assume you can fix it.
ELLA MENTALIE

I love hiking to the top of mountains in L.A. and seeing incredible landscapes. It really inspires m...
ELLA HENDERSON

He paused leaning over to lay his lips on hers, “It’s time to feel again. Let me save you from y...
ELLA FRANK

I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into you...
ELLA FRANK

The house my brother bought there is so beautiful -- it was built by Fred and Nellie Briers and is t...
ELLA BELL

Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveilin...
ELLA LEYA

The hurt is the place where the music enters you.
ELLA LEYA

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, th...
ELLA LEYA

Give light and people will find the way.
ELLA BAKER

In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the sys...
ELLA BAKER

There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statemen...
ELLA BAKER

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they ...
ELLA BAKER

Ne renoncez pas à faire ce que vous voulez vraiment faire. Là où il y a des rêves, de l’amour ...
ELLA FITZGERALD

American Masters: Ella Fitzgerald - Something To Live For,
ELLA FITZGERALD

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.
ELLA FITZGERALD

I succeed because I learn to accept failure. I find victory because I learn to accept defeat.
ELLA GUEL

I told Edward to buy it when it was $515,000.
ELLA FITZGERALD

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, becau...
ELLA BAKER

I want you. Am I supposed to walk away because you're a man? Maybe. They'll say yes for sure. But I'...
ELLA FRANK

You make me crazy and furious and out of my mind with need, but in the end, you make me so fucking h...
ELLA FRANK

If I die, I just want you to know that you have never looked hotter than you do right now, and that ...
ELLA FRANK

My illness is now in remission, and on a day-to-day basis, I truly feel amazing. I wake up with such...
ELLA WOODWARD

I think it's really important to find the right balance for you - a way of eating and living tha...
ELLA WOODWARD

Can you sharpen this for me, please?”

Logan leaned across the table and took the pencil...
ELLA FRANK

I think it's essential to engage with your followers. I always used to email bloggers, and no on...
ELLA WOODWARD

Women’s liberation fought for the right of women to leave the home and become involved in the publ...
ELLA WHELAN

Feminists believe that women should be protected from certain aspects of public life, including spee...
ELLA WHELAN

When my son left Sunnyside he was on fire. The first day he went to public school he wanted to do it...
ELLA RIOS

I'm so heartbroken that Sunnyside is closing. Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Ponder offered such a wonderful,...
ELLA RIOS

Their main guilt is that they did not take responsibility at the moment of the seizure, when people ...
ELLA KESAYEVA

They want to divide us, discredit us, and this seizure was the answer to our statement that we think...
ELLA KESAYEVA

Those whom we consider responsible for our children's death will escape justice, and our tragedy wil...
ELLA KESAYEVA

You wake up, you take up, you pace round, you're spaced out...
ELLA HOOPER

Persons not yet immunized this season can still build immunity against the virus, since the flu seas...
ELLA BOYD

To date, there have been only sporadic reports of influenza activity within New Jersey, so the heigh...
ELLA BOYD

As the weather continues to warm to springtime temperatures, more wild critters will start to roam i...
ELLA BOYD

We are providing a variety of programs for the general public on Tuesday, March 14, and Wednesday, M...
ELLA BOYD

Some of that is true. We have some violence, maybe more than some other parts of the city. But I bel...
ELLA BELL

He has asked me to look for some of the older, well-built homes for him,
ELLA BELL

It was a neighborhood of working-class people, many who owned their own businesses, ... Even if it d...
ELLA BELL

It doesn't have all that now, but if you can bring hard-working people with the right values into th...
ELLA BELL

That's what they did in other parts of the city. It's the same formula,
ELLA BELL

It was so pretty I told him that I needed to sell the house I'm in now and move into that one. He la...
ELLA BELL

How could I have ever thought she was what was wrong in my life? She was the only thing that made an...
ELLA FRANK

Blogs are amazing, and I'm so grateful to mine for giving me such a great platform to explore ot...
ELLA WOODWARD

Strong people don't need strong leaders.
ELLA BAKER

What I hear a lot is that fresh, healthy eating isn't accessible. That it's full of bizarre ...
ELLA WOODWARD

Have you ever heard about string theory? Everything is tied together, works together, shrinks, expan...
ELLA JAMES

You know, sloth is a sin," he says softly.
"I prefer to think of it as an adorable animal.
ELLA JAMES

Always keep wiping your face with towels when you work out because I find that the more I exercise, ...
ELLA EYRE

Sometimes the quickest solution ends in the most treacherous outcome.
SARA ELLA

I love really simple colours at home - lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.
ELLA WOODWARD

It's been frustrating for all us because we don't get access to all our best professional players an...
GLEN ELLA

It was really tough for Sarah. She obviously pretty distraught and we are all just that relieved tha...
GLEN ELLA

It's a real juggle for us. We need the guys to play together, to get them exposure, but we also want...
GLEN ELLA

There will be plenty of exposure and publicity, so it's up to him now.
GLEN ELLA

They're taking it very seriously. There's a comparison to the World Cup. They want to win a gold her...
GLEN ELLA

I love… I love black women.” My first reaction was to laugh and then smile. “You see I love th...
ELLA DECEMBER

A body so poetic, every curve is a verse.
ELLA DECEMBER

Is that actually you or am I dreaming again?
ELLA FOX

Time is, indeed, a strange and wondrous thing. It has no beginning or end, it seems. Time goes on, f...
SARA ELLA

High heels, I'm convinced, are a creation of the Void and intended only to torture my poor unfortuna...
SARA ELLA

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.
ELLA LEYA

How is it that you make me want so many things I had sworn I could do without?
ELLA FRANK

I don't know how it happened, and I don't know why, but this-- what she and I have-- it's solid. You...
ELLA FRANK

Patience of a saint. The mind of a sinner.
ELLA FRANK

Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can
ELLA C.

It's a small world. No matter what the circumstances, be nice to everyone, as you never know who...
ELLA EYRE

I think for us up-and-coming artists, once you're out there, once you've put stuff up, once ...
ELLA EYRE

I'm actually quite good at being friends with my exes. I'm friends with almost everyone. In ...
ELLA EYRE

I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone hom...
ELLA EYRE

There's a lot less time in the day when you're in a relationship.
ELLA EYRE

I found out that I'd broken up with someone when I wasn't even aware I was going out with th...
ELLA EYRE

My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't sa...
ELLA EYRE

I'd never been on tour until I met the Rudimental boys. Never done a live show in front of an au...
ELLA EYRE

I don't see life without a musical career. I really enjoy doing what I do.
ELLA EYRE

I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have e...
ELLA HENDERSON

I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.
ELLA HENDERSON

If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can&...
ELLA HENDERSON

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try ...
ELLA HENDERSON

I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could h...
ELLA HENDERSON

I don't wash my hair very often. Once a week if I can. Because the more you wash it, you end up ...
ELLA EYRE

I take up my make-up with Garnier's Micellar and then exfoliate with a Kiehl's exfoliating c...
ELLA EYRE

Honestly, I have been able to accept my father's new relationship because you get to that point ...
ELLA WOODWARD

I began researching natural healing, which is how I came to change my diet. Overnight, I gave up ref...
ELLA WOODWARD

I literally couldn't walk down the street; I slept for 16 hours a day, was in chronic pain, had ...
ELLA WOODWARD

I can smell bacon sizzling or chicken roasting and appreciate the aroma, but I don't want to eat...
ELLA WOODWARD

The most important thing is to snack on things that are filled with real food and nourishing ingredi...
ELLA WOODWARD

I have always kept my beauty regime super simple, but I would say discovering you could use coconut ...
ELLA WOODWARD

I love knowing exactly what you're putting onto your skin and about the ingredient benefits of t...
ELLA WOODWARD

I've always loved the scent of rose; it's just the most beautiful scent. If you open my bath...
ELLA WOODWARD

I think the smell of something is so important, especially when you're putting it on your face.
ELLA WOODWARD

I was really inspired by lots of people I came across who were managing various illnesses through di...
ELLA WOODWARD

There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.
ELLA WOODWARD

My problem with the word 'clean' is that it has become too complicated. It has become too lo...
ELLA WOODWARD

That’s probably the most sincere thing that I’ve ever heard come out of your mouth.”

ELLA FRANK

Living beings wide and far are creatively enticed into the idea of living only on the substance of l...
ELLA COOPER

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

A mighty monarch in the days of old
Made offer of high honour, wealth and gold,
To one who sho...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

In the long run all love is paid by love,
Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
The grea...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

From reincarnated sources and through prenatal causes I was born with unquenchable hope and unfalter...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men. The human raceHas climbed on pro...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay,...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must al...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being ki...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in re...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice o...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Give us that grand word woman once again, and let's have done with lady; one's a term full of fine f...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the o...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

He who leads
Must then be strong and hopeful as the dawn
That rises unafraid and full of joy<...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

No fate could rob us of our own--
No circumstance can make it less;
What time removes was bu...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

A weed is but an unloved flower.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

I prayed for riches and achieved success,
All that I touched turned into gold. Alas!
My cares...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

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