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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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.
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Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
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Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, 'What are they to me?' A jug fills drop by drop.
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Where would we go If we didn’t have sorrow and death?
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
