George Eliot Quotes

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

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• Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Election
  • Depend
  • Duck

• Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Growth
  • Depend
  • Global

• I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Me
  • Fashion
  • Depend

• Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Aesthetic

• We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Depend

• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Friendship
  • Depend
  • Depth

• But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Voice
  • Act
  • Depend

• There's various scenarios and interpretations about that urgency. I think first we have to get the facts. There are too many interpretations of the facts, and those scenarios could change based on the variables incorporated in those projections.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Interpretation
  • Urgency
  • Scenario

• Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Absolutely
  • Meanings

• So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Words
  • Difficult
  • Meanings

• Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Necessity
  • Interpretation
  • Not A Fact

• 'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.

  

  Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Media
  • Interpretation
  • No Return

• I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Interpretation

• If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Trouble
  • Understood
  • Interpretation

• When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Effect
  • Line
  • Depend

• It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

  

  George Eliot
  • Sex
  • Interpretation
  • Inferiority

• You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal.

  

  Charles Beaumont
  • Lives
  • Depend
  • Sex Appeal

• I don't see any point. I'm not sort of playing him as much as I am Glenn's interpretation of him, ... Both Joe and Allison's personalities act as springboards for Glenn's imagination. I don't think we are meant to ape them, or ape their lives.

  

  Jake Weber
  • Imagination
  • Playing
  • Interpretation

• If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Real
  • Giving
  • Culture

• It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Cause

• We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up.

  

  Simon Pegg
  • Problems
  • React
  • Upheaval

• At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Hope
  • You

• Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

  

  Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
  • Work
  • Together
  • Team

• All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

  

  George Eliot
  • Interpretation
  • Depend
  • Meanings