George Eliot Quotes
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
Quotes to Explore
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
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I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?
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Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.
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A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.
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Monica Langley has a great piece in The Wall Street Journal about how they're trying to create different kinds of moments for Donald Trump, as opposed to just him shouting at rallies. They're trying to get him in classrooms, and in churches, and in diners and places where he can make a more personal connection.
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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
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The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
