George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
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I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able – if called upon to do so – to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind of civility and selflessness would be both good manners and good for the world.
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Dawn will come even if the rooster is strangled.
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I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
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People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
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No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.
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I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.
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When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.
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Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.
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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
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One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
