George Eliot Quotes
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
Quotes to Explore
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.
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We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.
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I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise!
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
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Playing something like that is always a sense of achievement ... It's nice there's a station that's willing to provide that type of outlet for bands. It'll be the first (time playing that early).
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A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.
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The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.
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... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
