George Eliot Quotes

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

George Eliot

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• I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • May
  • Me
  • Deep

• Success is really about your mindset.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Success
  • Mindset
  • Success Is

• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Human
  • Demons

• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Fired

• The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Different
  • Challenges
  • Generation

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Experience
  • You
  • Impossible

• I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Money

• You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Choose
  • Public

• Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • School
  • High
  • Football

• We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Soul

• I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Life
  • War
  • Politics

• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Different
  • School
  • Together

• Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Better

• One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Career
  • Working
  • Blessings

• For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Support
  • City
  • Honor

• He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • God
  • Ocean
  • Bones

• The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

  

  John Berger
  • World
  • Rest
  • Poverty

• If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.

  

  Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I have learned the hard way that concussions are not fun.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Fun

• That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

  

  George Eliot
  • Rest
  • Blessed
  • Advancing