George Eliot Quotes

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

George Eliot

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• I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Emotion

• I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Always

• I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trouble
  • Face
  • Inside

• I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Same

• The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

  

  Edie Falco
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Men
  • Man
  • Genius

• But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Think
  • Taken

• I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Reading
  • Curious
  • Ghost

• Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Business
  • Think
  • Change

• Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Successful
  • Integrity

• Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

  

  Ovid
  • Occasion
  • Passes
  • Swiftly

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Hair
  • Youth
  • Your

• One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Live
  • Way
  • Peace

• The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Real
  • Beauty
  • Italian

• All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Free
  • Technology
  • Options

• If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Learn
  • Dancing
  • Dancer

• Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Land
  • Pitfalls
  • Overbold

• Well, trials are the portion of mankind, and gardeners have their share, and in any case it is better to be tried by plants than persons, seeing that with plants you know that it is you who are in the wrong, and with persons it is always the other way about—and who is there among us who has not felt the pangs of injured innocence, and known them to be grievous?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Mankind
  • Innocence
  • Plants

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• Cancer is not for sissies.

  

  Suzanne Somers
  • Cancer

• Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

  

  George Eliot
  • Create
  • Mankind
  • Philosophers