Elizabeth George Quotes

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

Elizabeth George

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• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Together
  • Age
  • Dream

• I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Money
  • Success
  • Past

• 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Smile

• When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • People
  • You
  • Judge

• You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Enough
  • Apple
  • iPhone

• Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Culture
  • Pressure

• There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • Study
  • Natural Disasters

• It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Easy

• I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Love
  • Business
  • Risk

• 'Sanam Re' is an amalgamation of an emotional love story and a visual treat.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Emotional
  • Story

• I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven, they do end up together somehow.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Up
  • Together
  • Girl

• The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People

• All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

  

  Mahavira
  • Violence

• 'It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? - sleep.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Dark
  • Sleep
  • Sad

• White America is an endangered species. By 2020, whites over 65 will out-number those 17 and under. Deaths will exceed births. The white population will begin to shrink and, should present birth rates persist, slowly disappear.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Present

• Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Country

• In law school, I never understood antitrust law. I later found out, in reading the writings of those who now do understand it, that I should not have understood it because it did not make any sense then.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • School
  • Law
  • Reading

• Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Time
  • True
  • Mathematical

• When I'm done my mixed martial arts career, the only people who are gonna remember me and respect what I did and how I lived my life are my two children. That's my legacy, ladies and gentlemen.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• If you rely only on experience, you’ll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they’re talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • People
  • Experience
  • History

• The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

  

  David Salle
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Facts

• I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

  

  Elizabeth George