George Eliot Quotes
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
Quotes to Explore
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
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Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
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There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.
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If you just get out of your own way... It is amazing what will come to you.
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Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
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How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
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For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.
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You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
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A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
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I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.
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People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realize. You see someone in school everyday, or at work, in the canteen, and you share a cigarette of a coffee with them, and you talk about the weather or last night's air raid. But you don't talk so much about what was the nastiest thing you ever said to your mother, or how you pretended to be David Balfour, the hero of Kidnapped, for the whole of the year when you were 13, or what you imagine yourself doing with the pilot who looks like Leslie Howard if you were alone in his bunk after a dance.
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I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
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I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
