 
	
	
		
			George Eliot Quotes
		
	
	
		
	
		 
	
	
	
		Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						 George Eliot
					
				
				George Eliot
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
	Quotes to Explore
		
	
	- 
	
	
	
		Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
	
	  Kate Bush Kate Bush
- 
	
	
	
		All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
	
	  W. H. Auden W. H. Auden
- 
	
	
	
		I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
	
	  Harold Ford, Jr. Harold Ford, Jr.
- 
	
	
	
		I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
	
	  Nancy Pickard Nancy Pickard
- 
	
	
	
		One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
	
	  Ed Rollins Ed Rollins
- 
	
	
	
		It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
	
	  Ram Dass Ram Dass
	- 
	
	
	
		I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
	
	  Sally Jewell Sally Jewell
- 
	
	
	
		They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
	
	  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
- 
	
	
	
		Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
	
	  Fidel Castro Fidel Castro
- 
	
	
	
		I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
	
	  Barry Levinson Barry Levinson
- 
	
	
	
		After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
	
	  Quincy Jones Quincy Jones
- 
	
	
	
		I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
	
	  Gail Sheehy Gail Sheehy