George Eliot Quotes
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
Maisie Williams
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Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
Gabby Douglas
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Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.
John Travolta
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
Oswald Chambers
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You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane
Rachel Caine
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
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I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about
B.J. Penn
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A feathered arrow without a barb,” said he, “is a good weapon, but a barbed arrow without feathers is utterly useless.
R. M. Ballantyne
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Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.
Spider Robinson
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I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.
David Bowie
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At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.
Nancy Newhall
