George Eliot Quotes

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

George Eliot

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• One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Garden

• The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Hard
  • Wrestling
  • Passions

• Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Good
  • Woman
  • Dress

• I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Up
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Dress
  • Shy
  • Cocktail

• I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Different
  • Opinions

• Unless I'm asked to dress up in a costume, TV shows prefer a clean, modern look, so I've developed a wardrobe full of plain, bright colours. If it's an outdoors job, I just wear big jumpers.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Up
  • Job
  • Look

• I dress according to what suits me and what I am comfortable in.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Comfortable
  • Dress
  • Suits

• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, 'Oh she's grown up,' but to show people that I'm actually a girl.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Me
  • Friend

• Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Live
  • Big
  • Dress

• I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Weird
  • Dress
  • Him

• I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Fear
  • Wedding
  • Dress

• If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Action
  • Understanding
  • Appreciation

• When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art
  • Dress
  • Recognize

• Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Desire
  • Path
  • Perfection

• All these provisions will weaken our ability to protect endangered species, ... while encouraging more costly litigation and draining money from important conservation measures.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Important
  • Money
  • Ability

• Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Way

• We have a balanced set of conflict of interest rules that protect the integrity of NIH and its ability to provide the American public with an unbiased and trusted source of scientific and health information, while preserving our ability to recruit and retain world class scientists and staff.

  

  Elias Zerhouni
  • Integrity
  • Rules
  • Protect

• Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

  

  George Eliot
  • Dress
  • Passions
  • Feeding