George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo -
Explosions are not comfortable.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
Van Morrison -
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln -
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
Kate Bush -
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
Laura Wade
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King -
Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
Lady Gaga -
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
Aasif Mandvi -
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
Karel Capek -
I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
Kate Bush -
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
Edgar Wright -
The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.
Sal Albanese -
A photograph can express silence.
Patrick Modiano -
You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
Irvine Welsh -
So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
Jane Goodall -
In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
Linda M. Godwin
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It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.
Dale Dye -
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett -
When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.
Chen Guangbiao -
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
George Eliot