George Eliot Quotes
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!George Eliot
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Sam Mendes -
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Walt Disney -
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
Karen Kingsbury -
Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
Taylor Lautner
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck -
I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
Zosia Mamet -
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
Pablo Casals -
I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
Walter Dean Myers -
The Internet really offered a space for me to thrive.
Paloma Elsesser -
After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
Rand Paul
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...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
Randall Jarrell -
Auch das gesteigertste psychologische Verstehen ist kein liebendes Verstehen.
Karl Jaspers -
'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'
Agatha Christie -
He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
Benjamin Disraeli -
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
James Whitcomb Riley -
For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.
Fred Armisen
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George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.
Britt Ekland -
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
Mikhail Lermontov -
I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
Kristin Gore -
Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
Anthony Wayne -
I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
Mahesh Babu -
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
George Eliot