George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
-
Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
-
The earth laughs in flowers.
-
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
-
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
-
I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
-
The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
-
I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
-
I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
-
While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
-
I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
-
Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
-
You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
-
I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
-
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
-
I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
-
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
-
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
-
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
-
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.
-
Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
-
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
-
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
