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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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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When I was 20, my husband at the time looked at me said, 'You're fat; go run.' There weren't a lot of tools at the end of the '70s to lose weight. It took me a while to realize what kind of exercise would make me happy and I would look forward to doing. And running became it.
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
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They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.
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When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
