George Eliot Quotes

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Thanks
  • Number
  • Honey

• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Style

• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Wear
  • Did
  • Van

• Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Acting

• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Nature
  • Rain
  • Kiss

• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Nature

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• I love love stories, no matter how dark.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Stories

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Singing

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Realize
  • Other

• I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Surprised
  • Prize
  • Novelist

• As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Good
  • College

• I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

  

  Lusia Strus
  • May
  • Choices
  • Theatre

• We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Future

• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - ...

  

  George Eliot
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