George Eliot Quotes

Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

George Eliot

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• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Better
  • Fascinating

• I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Heart
  • Bowler
  • Stead

• For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Lost

• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Kind

• During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Church
  • Singing
  • London

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Pretty
  • Church
  • Singing

• You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Change
  • Motorcycle

• Acting's boring.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Acting
  • Boring

• At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Day

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • True
  • Know
  • Same

• Collecting is my passion.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Passion
  • Collecting

• There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Education

• My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Friends
  • Date

• I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • God
  • Sports
  • Training

• I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Soul
  • Powerful

• I believe that climate change represents one of the greatest threats to our national security and our planet.

  

  Mark Pocan
  • Believe

• If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

  

  John Bercow
  • Fun

• When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play the political game and make everybody feel happy, and I can check their performances, and I can work on the sound while they're being a band.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• Dubai has got very little oil; it is Abu Dhabi that has got the oil. Dubai has very small resources, and it is running out, so the government's plan has been to relieve Dubai of any dependency on oil at all by 2010.

  

  Maurice Flanagan
  • Small
  • Running

• Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

  

  George Eliot
  • Game
  • Life is
  • Cards