George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson -
I don't talk soft, that's that other guy.
Donald Glover -
I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.
T. D. Jakes -
Just because people count you out and don't give you any love ... how about making them all fools?
Eddie Charles Jones -
This individual (McVeigh) will not be on this planet mocking us.
Frank Keating
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For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.
Jasper Fforde -
I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Successful leaders view the journey more like the captain of a sailboat, relying on their skill and know-how, but knowing all along that the wind (help from other sources) is the force that will get them to their destination.
Dan T. Cathy
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The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.
Peter O'Toole -
Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.
Alex Webb -
There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?
Garry Winogrand -
Perhaps the potency of fever, of drugs, of alcohol, or of mania may open up deeps of memory, of primordial memory, that are closed to the milder magic of sleep. The subtle poison in the grape may gnaw through the walls of Time and give the memory sight of those terrible days when we wallowed — nameless shapes — in the primaeval slime.
Elizabeth Bisland