George Eliot Quotes

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

George Eliot

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• Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Life
  • Death
  • Lies

• No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • Important
  • Night

• My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Together

• When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Ambition

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Help
  • Think
  • Just

• I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Age
  • Today
  • Wish

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Best
  • Goal
  • Win

• I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Loved

• 'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mean
  • Smart
  • Crime

• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Effort

• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Point
  • Jazz

• My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.

  

  Fleur East
  • Music
  • She
  • House

• If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Truth
  • Design
  • Information

• None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Humble

• A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.

  

  W. H. Auden

• When rain has hung the leaves with tears I want you near to kill my fears, To help me to leave all my blues behind. For standin' in your heart Is where I want to be And long to be, Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

  

  Donovan
  • Long
  • Heart
  • May

• Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don't just find talent, they groom talent.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • People
  • Smart
  • Pride

• Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Long
  • Passion
  • Jesus

• You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Book
  • Process
  • Jobs

• Growing up, I used to go to an inlet to lay out and try to meet all the surfer guys.

  

  Charlotte McKinney
  • Up
  • Growing

• I was always snobby about soap operas, and commercials, too, but one does have to eat. I remember auditioning for a commercial for a mouthwash or chewing gum or something, and I had to pretend to be the back end of somebody in a horse costume. After that, I said, 'That's it. That's it. You've sunk too far!'

  

  Jean Smart
  • Remember
  • Horse

• If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

  

  George Eliot