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 don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Like
  • Feel

• 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

• You can get a slouchy woman's tunic at different price points. But if you want a great pair of trousers or a dress with delicate pleating, you're going to have to spend a little more.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Great
  • Different
  • Woman

• 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

• For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Dress
  • Believed

• Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Job
  • Passions
  • Converting

• If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, if you feel like you've got a concussion, the biggest thing is rest, man. Cause you usually compound your injury so much if you go back out there, and we all know that now.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Man
  • Know
  • Rest

• Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Life
  • Swimming
  • Fishing

• If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• 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